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(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"
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a parcel of land having fixed boundaries;
"he bought a lot on the lake"
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an unofficial association of people or groups;
"the smart set goes there"
"they were an angry lot"
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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"
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anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;
"the luck of the draw"
"they drew lots for it"
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any collection in its entirety;
"she bought the whole caboodle"
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(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