lot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Informal A large extent, amount, or number. Often used in the plural: is in a lot of trouble; has lots of friends.
2. n. Informal Used adverbially with a or in the plural to mean "to a great degree or extent” or "frequently”: felt a lot better; ran lots faster; doesn't go out a whole lot; has seen her lots lately.
3. n. A piece of land having specific boundaries, especially one constituting a part of a city, town, or block.
4. n. A piece of land used for a given purpose: a parking lot.
5. n. The complete grounds of a film studio.
6. n. The outdoor area of a film studio.
7. n. An object used in making a determination or choice at random: casting lots.
8. n. The use of objects in making a determination or choice at random: chosen by lot.
9. n. The determination or choice so made.
10. n. Something that befalls one because of or as if because of determination by lot.
11. n. One's fortune in life; fate.
12. n. A number of associated people or things: placating an angry lot of tenants; kids who made a noisy lot.
13. n. Kind; type: That dog is a contented lot.
14. n. Miscellaneous articles sold as one unit.
15. v. To apportion by lots; allot.
16. v. To divide (land) into lots.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A means of determining something by chance; anything (as dice, pieces of paper of different lengths or differently marked, so placed that these differences cannot be perceived) used to decide a choice, advantage, dispute, etc. See to cast lots, to draw lots, below.
2. n. That which is determined or assigned by lot; that which one gets by the drawing or casting of lots, or by some other fortuitous method; a chance allotment, share, or portion, as of land, money, service, etc.
3. n. Share or portion in life allotted in any casual way; station or condition determined by the chances of life; fortune; destiny: as, the lot of the poor.
4. n. Any distinct part or parcel; a portion or part separated from others of the same kind: as, a lot of goods; a lot of furniture. Specifically
5. n. A portion or parcel of land; any piece of land divided off or set apart for a particular use or purpose: as, a building-lot; a pasture-lot; all that lot, piece, or parcel of ground (a formula in legal instruments). In the phrase “lot, piece, or parcel of land,” lot implies nothing as to the size of the tract, but when used alone it commonly denotes a small tract, such as a building-site. But it may include any legal subdivision of land. Thus, a quarter quarter-section (40 acres), being a legal subdivision and as such marked as a lot of ground, is held a “lot” within the meaning of a homestead exemption law exempting “the lot of ground and the buildings thereon, occupied as a residence and owned by the debtor.”
6. n. Proportion or share of taxes.
7. n. Tribute; toll.
8. n. In mining, dues to the lord of the manor for ingress and egress.
9. n. A large or considerable number or amount; a great deal: as, a lot of people: often used in the plural (and the plural even as an adverb, meaning ‘a great deal’): as, he has lots of money.
10. n. plural A game formerly played with roundels on which short verses were written: used as a singular.
11. n. The shoot of a tree.
12. n. Synonyms Hap, destiny, fate, doom, allotment.
13. To allot; assign; distribute; award.
14. To cast lots.
15. n. An individual person: usually with bad.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
2. n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
3. n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
4. n. A number of people taken collectively.
5. n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
6. n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
7. n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
8. n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
9. n. A prize in a lottery.
10. n. Allotment; lottery.
11. n. All members of a set; everything.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
2. n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will.
3. n. The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
4. n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; ; -- colloquially, sometimes of people
5. n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
6. n. A large quantity or number; a great deal
7. n. A prize in a lottery.
8. v. To allot; to sort; to portion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
2. n. an unofficial association of people or groups
3. n. (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
4. n. any collection in its entirety
5. n. anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
6. n. a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
7. v. divide into lots, as of land, for example
8. v. administer or bestow, as in small portions
9. n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)