1. (

• batch ,
• deal ,
• flock ,
• good_deal ,
• great_deal ,
• hatful ,
• heap ,
• lot ,
• mass ,
• mess ,
• mickle ,
• mint ,
• mountain ,
• muckle ,
• passel ,
• peck ,
• pile ,
• plenty ,
• pot ,
• quite_a_little ,
• raft ,
• sight ,
• slew ,
• spate ,
• stack ,
• tidy_sum ,
• wad

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

2. (

• lot

) a parcel of land having fixed boundaries; "he bought a lot on the lake" ;

3. (

• set ,
• circle ,
• band ,
• lot

) an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot" ;

4. (

• fortune ,
• destiny ,
• fate ,
• luck ,
• lot ,
• circumstances ,
• portion

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

5. (

• draw ,
• lot

) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it" ;

6. (

• bunch ,
• lot ,
• caboodle

) any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" ;

7. (

• Lot

) (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 ;

1. (

• lot

) divide into lots, as of land, for example ;

2. (

• distribute ,
• administer ,
• mete_out ,
• deal ,
• parcel_out ,
• lot ,
• dispense ,
• shell_out ,
• deal_out ,
• dish_out ,
• allot ,
• dole_out

) administer or bestow, as in small portions; "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" ;