[ləʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a river of southern France, which rises in the Auvergne and flows 480 km (300 miles) west to meet the River Garonne south-east of Bordeaux


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[lɒt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in the Bible) the nephew of Abraham, who was allowed to escape from the destruction of Sodom (Gen. 19). His wife, who disobeyed orders and looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt


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[lɒt], (Pronoun)

Definitions:
- a large number or amount; a great deal
(e.g: there are a lot of actors in the cast)


Phrases:
- a bad lot
- all over the lot
- draw lots
- fall to someone's lot
- throw in one's lot with

Origin:
Old English hlot (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lot, German Los. The original meanings were lot and (by extension) the sense ‘a portion assigned to someone’; the latter gave rise to the other noun senses. The pronoun and adverb uses date from the early 19th century

[lɒt], (Adverb)

Definitions:
- a great deal; much
(e.g: he played tennis a lot last year)


Phrases:
- a bad lot
- all over the lot
- draw lots
- fall to someone's lot
- throw in one's lot with

Origin:
Old English hlot (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lot, German Los. The original meanings were lot and (by extension) the sense ‘a portion assigned to someone’; the latter gave rise to the other noun senses. The pronoun and adverb uses date from the early 19th century

[lɒt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a particular group or set of people or things
(e.g: it's just one lot of rich people stealing from another)

- an item or set of items for sale at an auction
(e.g: nineteen lots failed to sell)

- the making of a decision by random selection, especially by a method involving the choice of one from a number of pieces of folded paper, one of which has a concealed mark
(e.g: officers were elected rather than selected by lot)

- a person's luck, situation, or destiny in life
(e.g: schemes to improve the lot of the disadvantaged)

- a plot of land assigned for sale or for a particular use
(e.g: a vacant lot)


Phrases:
- a bad lot
- all over the lot
- draw lots
- fall to someone's lot
- throw in one's lot with

Origin:
Old English hlot (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lot, German Los. The original meanings were lot and (by extension) the sense ‘a portion assigned to someone’; the latter gave rise to the other noun senses. The pronoun and adverb uses date from the early 19th century

[lɒt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- divide (items) into lots for sale at an auction
(e.g: the contents have already been lotted up, and the auction takes place on Monday)


Phrases:
- a bad lot
- all over the lot
- draw lots
- fall to someone's lot
- throw in one's lot with

Origin:
Old English hlot (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lot, German Los. The original meanings were lot and (by extension) the sense ‘a portion assigned to someone’; the latter gave rise to the other noun senses. The pronoun and adverb uses date from the early 19th century