Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

lot

UK /lɒt/ · US /lɑt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms lots lotting lotted Lut

  1. noun A large quantity or number; a great deal. “win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot”
  2. noun A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole. “a lot of stationery”
  3. noun One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  4. noun (informal) A number of people taken collectively. “a sorry lot”
  5. noun A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field. “a building lot in a city”
  6. noun That which happens without human design or forethought.
  7. noun Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will. “to cast lots”
  8. noun The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
  9. verb (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  10. verb (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).
  11. proper noun (biblical) A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
  12. proper noun A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.
  13. proper noun A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).
  14. proper noun A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.

Synonyms

load mass pile batch collection group set crowd gang allotment parcel plot chance accident destiny fate fortune destin doom fatality deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap mess mickle mint mountain

Antonyms

modicum

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.

From Hebrew לוֹט (lot). Doublet of Lut.

Borrowed from French Lot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  2. noun Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.
  3. verb To allot; to sort; to portion. [R.] To lot on or upon, to count or reckon upon; to expect with pleasure. [Colloq. U. S.]

Etymology [AS. hlot; akin to hleótan to cast lots, OS. hl lot, D. lot, G. loos, OHG. l, Icel. hlutr, Sw. lott, Dan. lod, Goth. hlauts. Cf. Allot, Lotto, Lottery.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “lot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “lot” (best matches first).

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