Definition of lot

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • lot is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 3
  • lot is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 3
  • lot is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 4

Definition of lot


  • an unofficial association of people or groups (noun)

    Examples

    1. they were an angry lot

    Synonyms

    1. band
    2. circle
    3. set
  • anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random (noun)

    Examples

    1. they drew lots for it

    Synonyms

    1. draw
  • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent (noun)

    Examples

    1. a lot of money

    Synonyms

    1. batch
    2. deal
    3. flock
    4. good deal
    5. great deal
    6. hatful
    7. heap
    8. mass
    9. mess
    10. mickle
    11. mint
    12. mountain
    13. muckle
    14. passel
    15. peck
    16. pile
    17. plenty
    18. pot
    19. quite a little
    20. raft
    21. sight
    22. slew
    23. spate
    24. stack
    25. tidy sum
    26. wad
  • any collection in its entirety (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bunch
    2. caboodle
  • your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) (noun)

    Examples

    1. has a happy lot

    Synonyms

    1. circumstances
    2. destiny
    3. fate
    4. fortune
    5. luck
    6. portion
  • administer or bestow, as in small portions (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. administer
    2. allot
    3. deal
    4. deal out
    5. dish out
    6. dispense
    7. distribute
    8. dole out
    9. mete out
    10. parcel out
    11. shell out
  • a parcel of land having fixed boundaries (noun)

    Examples

    1. he bought a lot on the lake
  • divide into lots, as of land, for example (verb)
  • (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 (noun)

See definition of lot in Merriam Webster