lot
English
/lɒt/, /lɑt/, /lɔt/
noun
Definitions
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Allotment; lottery.
- (definite) All members of a set; everything.
- (historic) 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lot inherited from Old English hlot (portion, decision, choice) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hlutą (lot, share, fate).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hlutą
Gloss
lot, share, fate
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Cognates and derived terms
- antilottery English
- back English
- backlot English
- car English
- carlot English
- cow English
- cowlot English
- feed English
- feedlot English
- helluva English
- helluvalot English
- holder English
- lotholder English
- lotless English
- lotologist English
- lotted English
- lottery English
- lotterylike English
- multilot English
- nonlottery English
- play English
- playlot English
- sand English
- sandlot English
- sandlotter English
- seed English
- seedlot English
- side English
- sidelot English
- sublot English
- tot English
- tot lot English
- Los German
- Losung German
- lotteria Italian
- lotto Italian
- kraslot Dutch, Flemish
- lot Dutch, Flemish
- lotenverkoopster Dutch, Flemish
- lotenverkoper Dutch, Flemish
- loterij Dutch, Flemish
- lotgenoot Dutch, Flemish
- noodlot Dutch, Flemish
- lot French
- loterie French
- lotir French
- lote Spanish, Castilian
- lotería Spanish, Castilian
- *klew- Proto-Indo-European
- lote Portuguese
- loteria Portuguese
- *hlutą Proto-Germanic
- loteria Polish
- lott Norwegian Nynorsk
- hlot Old English
- lot Middle English
- hluti Old Norse
- hlutr Old Norse
- lot Old French
- hluti Icelandic
- hlutlaus Icelandic
- hlutur Icelandic
- orðhluti Icelandic
- varahlutur Icelandic
- lote Galician
- ลอตเตอรี่ Thai
- lot Indonesian
- lot Middle Dutch
- hlōz Old High German
- lott'rie Norman
- luz Middle High German
- lôz Middle High German
- lot Middle French
- лоз Macedonian
- Luss Alemannic German
- *hlot Frankish
- *lot Frankish