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a lot
[ uh lot ]
adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of a lot1
Idioms and Phrases
Very many, a large number; also, very much. For example, A lot of people think the economy is declining , or Sad movies always made her cry a lot . It is sometimes put as a whole lot for greater emphasis, as in I learned a whole lot in his class . It may also emphasize a comparative indication of amount, as in We need a whole lot more pizza to feed everyone , or Mary had a lot less nerve than I expected . [ Colloquial ; early 1800s]Compare Meanings
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Example Sentences
"It's hugely emotional for a lot of reasons. His family find it very hard. Jockeys in Ireland, England and around the world have been under a cloud in the last couple of weeks."
“From playing together since we were 8, we have a lot of chemistry and trust each other fully,” Walker said.
He gives a lot of trust to everybody.”
“But there are a lot of reasons for putting the show out there. It stars the most famous person on planet Earth.”
One of them says they’re simply rejecting the world and its “distortions,” but to an outsider it looks a lot like captivity.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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