Standard Lemma guide

lot

name · noun · verb · 27 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /lɒt/
  • US: lät
  • US: /lɑt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒt
  • lŏt
  • Canada, Received-Pronunciation, dialectal: /lɒt/ in the US
  • /lɔt/ Standard Southern British, Australian, Boston, Western Pennsylvania
  • London: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American, dialectal: /lɑt/ in Canada
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /lɒt/
  • New-Zealand: [lɔ̟t]
  • CMU ARPABET: L AA1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: L AO1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: error-lua-exec

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: error-lua-exec

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A large quantity or number; a great deal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot
  • lots of people think so

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: load, mass, pile

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a lot of stationery
  • The Lord divided the land to the tribes, each according to his lot.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: batch, collection, group, set

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A number of people taken collectively.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • a sorry lot
  • a bad lot
  • you lot

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crowd, gang, group

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a building lot in a city

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: allotment, parcel, plot

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

That which happens without human design or forethought.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune, destin, doom, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, lot, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • to cast lots
  • to draw lots

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

A prize in a lottery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: prize

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

Allotment; lottery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

All members of a set; everything.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: definite

Qualifier: the lot

Examples

  • The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.
  • If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To allot; to sort; to apportion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To count or reckon (on or upon).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, dated, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

noun

Meaning 19

anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the luck of the draw
  • they drew lots for it

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: draw

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: object, physical object

20

noun

Meaning 20

any collection in its entirety

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she bought the whole caboodle

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bunch, caboodle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

21

noun

Meaning 21

an unofficial association of people or groups

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the smart set goes there
  • they were an angry lot

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: set, circle, band

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: social group

Narrower terms: car pool, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp, cohort, conspiracy, confederacy, Four Hundred, horsy set, horsey set, jet set, party, company

22

noun

Meaning 22

a parcel of land having fixed boundaries

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he bought a lot on the lake

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

Narrower terms: parking lot, car park, park, parking area, vacant lot, building site

23

noun

Meaning 23

(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Jew, Hebrew, Israelite

24

noun

Meaning 24

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a batch of letters
  • a deal of trouble
  • a lot of money
  • he made a mint on the stock market
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
  • it must have cost plenty
  • a slew of journalists
  • a wad of money

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount

Narrower terms: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow

25

noun

Meaning 25

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • whatever my fortune may be
  • deserved a better fate
  • has a happy lot
  • the luck of the Irish
  • a victim of circumstances
  • success that was her portion

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: condition

Narrower terms: good fortune, luckiness, good luck, providence, misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck, failure

26

verb

Meaning 26

administer or bestow, as in small portions

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • administer critical remarks to everyone present
  • dole out some money
  • shell out pocket money for the children
  • deal a blow to someone
  • the machine dispenses soft drinks

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: give

Narrower terms: assign, allot, portion, reallot, deal, give, apply

27

verb

Meaning 27

divide into lots, as of land, for example

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up

History

Etymology

From Hebrew לוֹט (lot). Doublet of Lut.

Borrowed from French Lot.

From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.

Across languages

Translations

177 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Amharic: ሎጥ (loṭ) — nephew of Abraham
  • Arabic: لُوط (lūṭ) — nephew of Abraham
  • Armenian: Լոտ — nephew of Abraham
  • Azerbaijani: Lut — nephew of Abraham
  • Belarusian: Лот — nephew of Abraham
  • Bengali: লূত (lūt) — nephew of Abraham
  • Bulgarian: Лот — nephew of Abraham
  • Catalan: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Cherokee: ᎶᏛ (lodv) — nephew of Abraham
  • Cherokee: ᎶᏗ (lodi) — nephew of Abraham
  • Chinese Mandarin: 羅得 /罗得 (Luódé) — nephew of Abraham
  • Maore Comorian: Lutwi — nephew of Abraham
  • Ngazidja Comorian: Lutu — nephew of Abraham
  • Coptic: ⲗⲱⲧ (lōt) — nephew of Abraham
  • Finnish: Loot — nephew of Abraham
  • French: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • French: Loth — nephew of Abraham
  • Georgian: ლოტი (loṭi) — nephew of Abraham
  • German: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Greek: Λωτ — nephew of Abraham
  • Ancient Greek: Λώτ (Lṓt) — nephew of Abraham
  • Hawaiian: Lota — nephew of Abraham
  • Hebrew: לוֹט (lot) — nephew of Abraham
  • Hindi: लूत (lūt) — nephew of Abraham
  • Hungarian: Lót — nephew of Abraham
  • Italian: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Japanese: ロト (Roto) — nephew of Abraham
  • Kazakh: Лұт (Lūt) — nephew of Abraham
  • Korean: 롯 — nephew of Abraham
  • Latin: Lōt — nephew of Abraham
  • Macedonian: Лот — nephew of Abraham
  • Pashto: لوط (lut) — nephew of Abraham
  • Persian: لوط (lut) — nephew of Abraham
  • Polish: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Portuguese: Ló — nephew of Abraham
  • Portuguese: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Romanian: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Russian: Лот — nephew of Abraham
  • Spanish: Lot — nephew of Abraham
  • Swahili: Lutu — nephew of Abraham
  • Turkish: Lut — nephew of Abraham
  • Ukrainian: Лот — nephew of Abraham
  • Urdu: لوط (lūt) — nephew of Abraham
  • Uyghur: لۇت (lut) — nephew of Abraham
  • Uzbek: Lut — nephew of Abraham
  • Catalan: Òlt — department of France
  • French: Lot — department of France
  • Marathi: लॉत (lŏt) — department of France
  • Occitan: Òut — department of France
  • Occitan: Òlt — department of France
  • Polish: Lot — department of France
  • Bulgarian: група (grupa) — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Bulgarian: множество (množestvo) — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Finnish: erä — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • French: groupe — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • French: ensemble — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Galician: lote — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • German: Menge — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • German: Los — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • German: Charge — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • German: Haufen — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • German: Anzahl — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Hebrew: חלוקה (khaluqah) — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Italian: gruppo — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Italian: insieme — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Italian: quantità — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Portuguese: quantidade — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Swedish: mängd — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Ottoman Turkish: حصه (hisse) — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Ottoman Turkish: قسط (kıst) — separate portion; number of things taken collectively
  • Finnish: erä — one or more items auctioned or sold as a unit
  • Finnish: huutokauppaerä — one or more items auctioned or sold as a unit
  • Spanish: lote — one or more items auctioned or sold as a unit
  • Finnish: joukko — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • French: bande — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Galician: lote — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Galician: fato — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • German: Gruppe — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • German: Menge — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • German: Haufen — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • German: Häuflein — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • German: leute — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Portuguese: bando — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Russian: гру́ппа (grúppa) — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Swedish: bunt — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Swedish: skara — informal: a number of people taken collectively
  • Bulgarian: участък (učastǎk) — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Danish: grundstykke — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Danish: tomt — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Faroese: grundstykki — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Finnish: tontti — distinct portion or plot of land
  • French: lot — distinct portion or plot of land
  • French: parcelle — distinct portion or plot of land
  • German: Parzelle — distinct portion or plot of land
  • German: Grund — distinct portion or plot of land
  • German: Grundstück — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Hebrew: חֶלְקָה (ḥelqá) — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Hungarian: telek — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Irish: gabháltas — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Portuguese: lote — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Spanish: loteo — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Swedish: tomt — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Tagalog: lote — distinct portion or plot of land
  • Albanian: rrevë — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Bulgarian: участ (učast) — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Bulgarian: съдба (sǎdba) — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Dutch: lot — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Finnish: kohtalo — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Finnish: osa — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • French: destin — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • German: Schicksal — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • German: Los — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Hebrew: גּוֹרָל (gorál) — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Hungarian: sors — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Italian: destino — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Norwegian: skjebne — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Plautdietsch: Schikjsol — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Polish: przeznaczenie — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Polish: los — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Russian: у́часть (účastʹ) — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Russian: судьба́ (sudʹbá) — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Swedish: öde — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Swedish: lott — that which happens without human design or forethought — see also destiny
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܸܕ݂ܒ݂ܵܐ (ˁiḏḇā) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Bulgarian: жребий (žrebij) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Chinese: 鬮 /阄 — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Esperanto: loto — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Estonian: liisk — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Finnish: arpa — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • German: Los — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (hlauts) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Ancient Greek: κλῆρος (klêros) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Hebrew: גּוֹרָל (gorál) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Ingrian: arpa — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Latin: sors — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Malayalam: നറുക്ക് (naṟukkŭ) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Malayalam: കുറി (kuṟi) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Polish: los — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Russian: жре́бий (žrébij) — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Swedish: lott — anything used in determining a question by chance
  • Azerbaijani: tale — part or fate that befalls one
  • Azerbaijani: qismət — part or fate that befalls one
  • Bulgarian: участ (učast) — part or fate that befalls one
  • Esperanto: sorto — part or fate that befalls one
  • Faroese: lagna — part or fate that befalls one
  • Finnish: osa — part or fate that befalls one
  • Finnish: kohtalo — part or fate that befalls one
  • French: lot — part or fate that befalls one
  • French: sort — part or fate that befalls one
  • German: Los — part or fate that befalls one
  • German: Schicksal — part or fate that befalls one
  • Ancient Greek: πότμος (pótmos) — part or fate that befalls one
  • Hebrew: גּוֹרָל (gorál) — part or fate that befalls one
  • Hungarian: sors — part or fate that befalls one
  • Irish: cinniúint — part or fate that befalls one
  • Japanese: 宿命 (shukumei) — part or fate that befalls one
  • Latin: sors — part or fate that befalls one
  • Latin: pars — part or fate that befalls one
  • Mongolian: хувь (xuvʹ) — part or fate that befalls one
  • Plautdietsch: Schikjsol — part or fate that befalls one
  • Polish: przeznaczenie — part or fate that befalls one
  • Polish: los — part or fate that befalls one
  • Swedish: lott — part or fate that befalls one
  • Bulgarian: лотарийна награда (lotarijna nagrada) — prize in a lottery
  • Finnish: voitto — prize in a lottery
  • Finnish: arpajaisvoitto — prize in a lottery
  • French: lot — prize in a lottery
  • German: Los — prize in a lottery
  • Malayalam: സമ്മാനം (sammānaṁ) — prize in a lottery
  • Finnish: arpa — allotment, lottery
  • Malayalam: നറുക്ക് (naṟukkŭ) — allotment, lottery
  • Malayalam: കുറി (kuṟi) — allotment, lottery
  • Finnish: kaikki — all members of a set
  • Dutch: lood — old unit of weight
  • Finnish: luoti — old unit of weight
  • German: Lot — old unit of weight
  • Polish: łut — old unit of weight