lot
Because it is a word with a single syllable, lot is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oflot
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Example: "lots of people think so"
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
Synonyms: batch, collection, group, set
Example: "a lot of stationery"
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- A number of people taken collectively.
Example: "a bad lot"
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
Example: "a building lot in a city"
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
Example: "to cast lots"
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
- A prize in a lottery.
Synonyms: prize
- Allotment; lottery.
- (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
Example: "If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them."
- An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- To allot; to sort; to apportion.
- To count or reckon (on or upon).
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