How do you use the word "lot" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "lot": I hate it when there are a lot of people. I learned a lot from you.

Lot Meaning

/lɒt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA large quantity or number; a great deal.

nounA separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.

Sentence Examples

I hate it when there are a lot of people.

I learned a lot from you.

I care a lot about you.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pot band circle

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

We parked our car in the large empty ____ behind the building.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

There was a ____ of excitement in the air as the crowd waited for the concert to finally begin tonight.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"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, Max Carrados Mysteries:

"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:

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