What is the meaning of Lot?

noun

• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
• A parcel of land having fixed boundaries.
  • usage: "he bought a lot on the lake"
• An unofficial association of people or groups.
  • usage: "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"
  • synonyms: set, circle, band
• Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you. )
  • usage: "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
  • synonyms: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion
• Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random.
  • usage: "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"
  • synonyms: draw
• Any collection in its entirety.
  • usage: "she bought the whole caboodle"
  • synonyms: bunch, caboodle
• Old Testament. ( nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction)

verb

• Divide into lots, as of land, for example.
• Administer or bestow, as in small portions.
  • usage: "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
  • synonyms: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out