Dictionary Entry

lot

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /lɒt/Used In Literature ↓

A large quantity or number; a great deal.

In a Sentence

“lots of people think so”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. lotbetter lotlot parkinglot wholelot awful

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Poetry examples for “lot”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

There's one spoilt spring to scant our mortal lot,
One season ruined of our little store.

An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad, drooping with your lot?
I too would be where I am not.

This day, be bread and peace my lot:
All else beneath the sun,

And Lot of Orkney. Then, before a voice

And daughters had she borne him,—one whereof,
Lot’s wife, the Queen of Orkney, Bellicent,
Hath ever like a loyal sister cleaved

With Gawain and young Modred, her two sons,
Lot’s wife, the Queen of Orkney, Bellicent;
Whom as he could, not as he would, the King

Perhaps by now the very name's forgot;
So strange is Fate that it has been my lot
To learn through thee the presence of that aim

How soon, my Dear, death may my steps attend,
How soon't may be thy lot to lose thy friend,
We both are ignorant, yet love bids me

In humbler forms, it may be true;
Yet great is that which gives our lot;
High laws and powers our will transcend,

O born to human trouble! also born—
Else wherefore born—to some diviner lot,
Live, and may chance treat thee no worse than us