lot – English noun declension

English noun forms of lot

Noun: lot
Singularlot
Plurallots

Sample Sentences

  • win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot
  • lots of people think so
  • He wrote to her […] he might be detained in London by a lot of business. [1877, William Black, Green Pastures and Piccadilly, volume 2, page 4:]
  • I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 52:]
  • a lot of stationery
  • The Lord divided the land to the tribes, each according to his lot.
  • This is an important lot. Very sorry, but we can't go on with the selling until we know more where we are. [1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:]
  • a sorry lot
  • a bad lot
  • you lot
  • a building lot in a city
  • The defendants leased a house and lot, in the City of New-York [1820, James Kent, edited by William Johnson, Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New-York, volume 5, published 1822:]
  • But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1:]
  • to cast lots
  • to draw lots
  • The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 16:33:]
  • If we draw lots, he speeds. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear. [1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die. [1725, Homer, “Book III”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:]
  • […] as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion. [1749, Henry Fielding, chapter II, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:]
  • We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. [1977, C-3PO, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope:]
  • In the lottery[…] Sir R. Haddock one of the Commissrs of the Navy had the greatest lot, £3000 ; my coachman £ 40 [1694 November 21 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for November 12 1694]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:]
  • Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit. [1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)]
  • The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.
  • If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.

Etymology

1. From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'lot', Old English Nouns 'hlot', Dutch Nouns 'lot', French Nouns 'lot', German Nouns 'Los'.

Verbs referencing "lot"

English Nouns lottery, French Nouns lot, German Nouns Los, Icelandic Nouns hluti, Icelandic Nouns hlutur, Portuguese Nouns loteria, Spanish Nouns lotería, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns lott.