a lot

See also: alot and allot

English

Alternative forms

• alot (nonstandard)

Etymology

See lot.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə ˈlɒt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ə ˈlɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophone: allot

Pronoun

a lot

1. (informal) A large amount.

   Antonyms: a bit; see also Thesaurus:quantity

   I have a lot of things to say.

2. Many things, much.

   A lot depends on whether your parents agree.

Derived terms

• do a lot of work

 

Translations

a large amount

• Albanian: shumë (sq)
• Arabic: كَثِير (ar) (kaṯīr)

  Egyptian Arabic: كتير (kitīr)

  Hijazi Arabic: كثير (katīr, kaṯīr), كَتير (katīr)

  Iraqi Arabic: هواية (hwāya)

  North Levantine Arabic: كتير (ktīr)

  South Levantine Arabic: كتير (ktīr)

• Azerbaijani: çox (az)
• Bashkir: күп (küp), байтаҡ (baytaq)
• Belarusian: мно́га (mnóha), шмат (be) (šmat), бага́та (be) (baháta)
• Bengali: অনেক (bn) (onek), বহু (bn) (bohu)
• Bulgarian: мно́го (bg) (mnógo)
• Burmese: များ (my) (mya:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: мно́го (mnóho), ве́лё (véljo)
• Catalan: molt (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏥᏈᏍᏗ (tsiquisdi)
• Chickasaw: lawa, i̠lawa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 好多 (hou² do¹), 大把 (daai⁶ baa²)

  Mandarin: 很多 (zh) (hěn duō), 多 (zh) (duō)

• Czech: spousta (cs) f, fůra (cs) f
• Dutch: veel (nl)
• Esperanto: multa (eo), multe da
• Estonian: palju (et)
• Finnish: paljon (fi)
• French: beaucoup (fr)
• Galician: lote (gl), mundo (gl) m, feixe (gl) m, morea (gl) f, ben de
• Georgian: ბევრი (bevri), დიდძალი (didʒali)
• German: viel (de)
• Greek: (uncountably):πολλά (el) (pollá), (countably):πολύ (el) (polý)

  Ancient: πλῆθος n (plêthos)

• Hebrew: הַרבֵּה (he) (harbé)
• Hindi: अधिक (hi) (adhik), बहुत (hi) (bahut)
• Hungarian: sok (hu), egy csomó, egy rakat, számos (hu), rengeteg (hu)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Ingrian: paljo, koormittee
• Irish: mórán m, neart m, a lán
• Italian: molto (it), grande (it)
• Jamaican Creole: a bag a, a crocus bag a
• Japanese: 沢山 (ja) (たくさん, takusan), 多くの (ja) (おおくの, ōku no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ōi)
• Jingpho: law
• Kazakh: көп (kk) (köp)
• Khmer: ច្រើន (km) (craən)
• Korean: 많은 (ko) (maneun), 많이 (ko) (mani)
• Kyrgyz: көп (ky) (köp)
• Lao: ຫຼາຍ (lāi)
• Latin: multus (la)
• Latvian: daudz (lv)
• Lithuanian: daug (lt)
• Macedonian: многу (mk) (mnogu)
• Malay: banyak (ms)
• Manx: mooarane m
• Mongolian: олон (mn) (olon)
• Navajo: díí óolyé dooląął, tʼóó báhádzigo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: massevis

  Nynorsk: massevis

• Persian: مقدار زیاد (meqdâre ziyâd), زیاد (fa) (ziyâd), بسیار (fa) (besiyâr)
• Plautdietsch: väl
• Polish: wiele (pl), dużo (pl)
• Portuguese: muito (pt), bastante (pt)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਬਥੇਰਾ m (batherā), ਬਥੇਰੀ f (batherī), ਬਥੇਰੇ pl (bathere)

  Shahmukhi: بَتھیرا m (batherā), بَتھیرِی f (batherī), بَتھیرے pl (bathere)

• Russian: мно́го (ru) (mnógo), нема́ло (ru) (nemálo), мно́гие (ru) pl (mnógije) (countable, also)
• Sanskrit: बहु (sa) (bahu), अधिकम् (sa) (adhikam)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мно̏гӣ, мно̏го

  Roman: mnȍgī (sh), mnȍgo (sh)

• Sinhalese: බොහෝ (si) (bohō)
• Slovak: veľa, mnoho
• Slovene: veliko (sl), mnogo
• Spanish: un montón (es) m (colloquial, countable), un bonche m (Latin America), un raudal m
• Swahili: sana
• Swedish: mycket (sv) (uncountable), många (sv) (countable), en hel del (sv) (either)
• Tajik: бисёр (tg) (bisyor), хеле (tg) (xele)
• Tamil: நிறைய (ta) (niṟaiya)
• Thai: หลาย (th) (lǎai)
• Turkish: çok (tr)
• Turkmen: köp
• Ukrainian: бага́то (uk) (baháto), чима́ло (čymálo)
• Urdu: بہت (bahut)
• Uyghur: جىق (jiq)
• Uzbek: koʻp (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhiều (vi), lắm (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿיל (fil)
• Zhuang: haujlai, lai

many things

• Albanian: shumë (sq)
• Azerbaijani: çox şey
• Catalan: molt (ca)
• Chickasaw: lawa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 好多 (hou² do¹)

• Czech: hodně (cs), mnoho (cs)
• Dutch: veel (nl)
• Esperanto: multa (eo), multe da
• Finnish: paljon (fi)
• German: vieles (de) n
• Hungarian: sok minden, sok (hu)
• Ingrian: paljo
• Irish: a lán
• Latin: multi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Plautdietsch: väl
• Portuguese: bastante (pt), muito (pt)
• Romanian: mult (ro)
• Russian: мно́гое (ru) (mnógoje)
• Spanish: mucho (es), asaz (es), bastante (es)
• Ukrainian: бага́то (uk) (baháto)

Adverb

a lot (not comparable)

1. (informal) Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.

   Synonyms: immensely, loads, tons

   Antonyms: a bit; see also Thesaurus:very

   Coordinate terms: somewhat, to an extent

   Thanks a lot for listening to me.

   It's a lot harder than it looks.

   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

2. (informal) Often; frequently.

   I go swimming a lot.

Related terms

• alot
• lots

 

Translations

very much

• Albanian: shumë (sq)
• Arabic: كَثِيرًا (kaṯīran)

  Egyptian Arabic: قوي

  Gulf Arabic: وايد

• Armenian: շատ (hy) (šat)
• Belarusian: шмат (be) (šmat), мно́га (mnóha)
• Catalan: molt (ca)
• Cebuano: kaayu
• Chickasaw: lawa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 許多／许多 (zh) (xǔduō), 多 (zh) (duō)

• Czech: velmi mnoho, moc (cs)
• Danish: meget (da)
• Dutch: veel (nl)
• Esperanto: multe (eo)
• Finnish: paljon (fi), hyvin paljon
• French: beaucoup (fr)
• Gallo: brav'ment
• German: viel (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφόδρα (sphódra)

• Haitian Creole: anpil
• Hebrew: הרבה (he) (harbe)
• Hindi: बहुत सारा (bahut sārā)
• Hungarian: nagyon (hu), (with comparative degree) sokkal (hu), jóval (hu), sokkalta (hu)
• Ingrian: paljo, koormittee, äijä
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: molto (it)
• Japanese: 沢山の (ja) (たくさんの, takusan no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ooi)
• Khmer: ច្រើន (km) (craən)
• Korean: 많은 (ko) (maneun)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زۆر (ckb) (zor)

• Lao: ຫລາຍ (lāi)
• Latin: multō (la), multum (la), tot (la) m or m pl or f or f pl or n or n pl
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: мно́гу (mk) (mnógu)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: assaje m
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: mange (no)
• Ojibwe: naaniibowa
• Old French: molt, mult, mout
• Persian: زیاد (fa) (ziyâd), خیلی زیاد (xeyli ziyâd)
• Polish: mnóstwo (pl), wiele (pl), dużo (pl)
• Portuguese: um monte, muito (pt), muita (pt)
• Russian: мно́го (ru) (mnógo)
• Scottish Gaelic: mòran
• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Shor: кӧп (köp)
• Slovak: mnoho
• Southern Thai: จังหู้
• Spanish: mucho (es), un montón (es) (colloquial), una barbaridad (colloquial), cosa mala (colloquial), a jierro (Andalusia), una pechá (Andalusia)
• Swahili: mengi (sw)
• Swedish: mycket (sv), en hel del (sv)
• Thai: มาก (th) (mâak)
• Tocharian B: māka
• Turkish: çok (tr), bir sürü (tr), bir ton
• Ukrainian: бага́то (uk) (baháto)
• Vietnamese: nhiều (vi), lắm (vi)
• Volapük: mödo (vo)
• Welsh: llawer
• Wolof: lool (wo)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

often

• Arabic: كَثِيرًا (kaṯīran)
• Armenian: հաճախ (hy) (hačax)
• Catalan: sovint (ca), freqüentment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常常 (zh) (chángcháng), 經常／经常 (zh) (jīngcháng), 時常／时常 (zh) (shícháng)

• Czech: často (cs)
• Dutch: vaak (nl), veel (nl)
• Esperanto: ofte (eo)
• Finnish: usein (fi)
• French: souvent (fr)
• German: oft (de)
• Hungarian: gyakran (hu), sokat (hu), sokszor (hu), gyakorta (hu)
• Italian: spesso (it)
• Japanese: よく (ja) (yoku), 度々 (ja) (たびたび, tabitabi), しばしば (ja) (shiba shiba)
• Korean: 자주 (ko) (jaju)
• Latin: saepe (la)
• Macedonian: многупати (mnogupati), често (često)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: assaje m
• Norwegian: ofte (no)
• Polish: często (pl)
• Portuguese: muito (pt), bastante (pt)
• Russian: ча́сто (ru) (částo)
• Spanish: frecuentemente (es)
• Swedish: ofta (sv)
• Turkish: çok sık, çok (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} daug (lt)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} มาก (th) (maak)

References

• “a lot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ATOL, Alto, Toal, alto, alto-, atlo-, lota, talo-, tola