lotto
- n a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
lost-and-found
- n repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them
lost cause
- n a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
lost tribes
- n the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)
lot
- n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a lot of money - n a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
he bought a lot on the lake - n an unofficial association of people or groups
they were an angry lot - n your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot - n anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
they drew lots for it - n any collection in its entirety
- n (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
- v divide into lots, as of land, for example
- v administer or bestow, as in small portions
lot's wife
- n (Old Testament) when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family were told to flee without looking back; Lot's wife was disobedient and was immediately changed into a pillar of salt