1. A large number or amount
   "made lots of new friends";
   - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], slews, wads [informal], oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]

1. To a very great degree or extent
   "I feel lots better";
   - a lot, a good deal, a great deal

1. (often followed by ‘of’) a large number, amount or extent
   "a lot of money";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal], scad [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Any collection in its entirety
   "she bought the whole lot";
   - bunch, caboodle [informal]
    
3. A parcel of land having fixed boundaries
   "he bought a lot on the lake"
    
4. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
   "has a happy lot";
   - fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion, circs [Brit, informal]
    
5. An unofficial association of people or groups
   "they were an angry lot";
   - set, circle, band
    
6. Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
   "they drew lots for it";
   - draw
    
7. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items
   "The antique vase was sold as part of a larger lot"

1. Divide into lots, as of land, for example
   "The developer lotted the large property into smaller parcels"
    
2. Give or provide in small portions
   "The teacher lotted out the art supplies to each student";
   - distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out, mete, dole

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, article, assemblage, carve up, collection, condition, dissever [rare], divide, give, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, object, parcel, parcel of land, physical object, piece of ground, piece of land, separate, social group, split, split up, tract

Encyclopedia: Lots