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Lots

noun
1.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"
adverb
1.
To a very great degree or extent.  Synonyms: a good deal, a great deal, a lot, much, very much.  "We enjoyed ourselves very much" , "She was very much interested" , "This would help a great deal"


Lot

noun
1.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  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.  "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.
A parcel of land having fixed boundaries.
3.
An unofficial association of people or groups.  Synonyms: band, circle, set.  "They were an angry lot"
4.
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).  Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, portion.  "Deserved a better fate" , "Has a happy lot" , "The luck of the Irish" , "A victim of circumstances" , "Success that was her portion"
5.
Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random.  Synonym: draw.  "They drew lots for it"
6.
Any collection in its entirety.  Synonyms: bunch, caboodle.
7.
(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.
verb
(past & past part. lotted; pres. part. lotting)
1.
Divide into lots, as of land, for example.
2.
Administer or bestow, as in small portions.  Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out.  "Dole out some money" , "Shell out pocket money for the children" , "Deal a blow to someone" , "The machine dispenses soft drinks"



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"Lots" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I've got lots of water," said Olive in a cheerful tone, "so we'll do the watering at once. Sylvia and Hester say that they must have a third each of this canful; but of course we can get a second ...
— Betty Vivian - A Story of Haddo Court School • L. T. Meade
... big, big picnic," said Frank, and the girls began to laugh. "We're going to have lots of fun." ...
— Crusoes of the Frozen North • Gordon Stables
... no doubt of it. He would consider it a brotherly duty; and to tell the truth, Roland, I fear you would give any woman lots of heartache. I cannot tell what must be done. You have had so many good business chances, and yet never ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... the "not only," means that in that case you would not go, but rest assured lots of other people are going, the two Graham girls, little Tommy Grant, Mr Dalrymple, and Captain Harkness,' says Mabel, 'but read the note yourself and decide—' Philippa's mind is soon made up. 'I think I should like to go, it will ...
— Lippa • Beatrice Egerton
... an intrigant. I knew Bebel and Jaures and the men before them. I lived in Germany many years, in France, in England, anywhere, everywhere. I first came to New York from Siberia. I was broke. The Civil War was on. There were agents of Lee and Jeff Davis in New York seeking sailors. They offered lots of money,—thousands,—and I went along, smuggled into the South ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien


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