## Meanings
1. A large amount or number of something.
2. A group of people or things considered together.
3. A piece of land with fixed boundaries.
4. A group of items sold together at an auction.

## Examples
- There were a lot of people at the concert.
- The new students seem like a friendly lot.
- They bought a lot by the lake to build a house.
- The next lot up for sale is a set of antique chairs.

## Synonyms
- abundance
- arseload
- assload
- bellyload
- boatload
- brimful
- bucketful
- bucketload
- bumload
- busload
- butt-ton
- buttload

## Antonyms
- modicum

## Derived Forms
- backlot
- carlot
- cowlot
- feedlot
- helluvalot
- interlot
- lotful
- lotholder
- lotless
- lottery
- microlot
- multilot

## Related Forms
- manifold

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: lot
- Root: hlot
- Root: *hlut
- Root: *hlutą

## Etymology
From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.

## AI Etymology
Lot comes from Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. In present-day English its meanings include a large amount or number of something, a group of people or things considered together, and a piece of land with fixed boundaries. The historical chain runs through lot (Middle English), hlot (Old English), *hlut (Proto-West Germanic), and *hlutą (Proto-Germanic). Related and derived forms include manifold, backlot, carlot, and cowlot.

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- Numbers & Quantity

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