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lots   (TTS Sound)

The noun lots has 1 sense

• tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings -- (a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers")

The noun lot has 7 senses

• 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")


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


• set, circle, band, lot -- (an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot")


• 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")


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


• bunch, lot, caboodle -- (any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle")


• 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)

The verb lot has 2 senses

• lot -- (divide into lots, as of land, for example)


• 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")

The adv lots has 1 sense

• a lot, lots, a good deal, a great deal, much, very much -- (to a very great degree or extent; "I feel a lot better"; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal")