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# lots

«lots» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large number or amount: «lots of friends», «lots of water»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lots — plural of lot; «lots of»); adverb (lots — very much, informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) «Lots» or «lots of» means a large number or amount: «lots of friends», «lots of water». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#m1)

2) Lots (adverb, informal) means very much: «I feel lots better». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#m2)

3) Lots can also be the plural of «lot»: pieces of land, or things sold at an auction, or slips drawn to decide something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and stories, «lots of» is the friendly way to say «many» or «much». In maths, «lots of» can mean groups of: «3 lots of 4» means 3 × 4 = 12, a common way to explain multiplying. Phrases: «lots and lots», «lots of love» (end of a letter), «draw lots» (choose by chance).

### examples

- There are lots of apples on the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x1)
- I have lots of homework tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x2)
- Three lots of five make fifteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x3)
- Lots of love, Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x4)
- She feels lots better today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x5)
- We drew lots to choose who went first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x6)
- Lots and lots of people came to the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x7)
- Drink lots of water on a hot day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x8)
- “Lots of little boys,” sneered Liza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/#x9)

### note

«Lots of» works with countable (lots of books) and uncountable nouns (lots of milk). It is informal; in formal writing use «many» or «much». Verb agrees with the noun after it: «Lots of people are here», «Lots of water is spilt». Maths: «4 lots of 3» = 4 × 3.

### In the corpora

- [Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/15/)
- [Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/21/)
- ["Lots of people feel like that after a scary film, love.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/7/)
- [In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/12/)
- [So a mouse's whole life is about not being seen, not being caught and having lots of babies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lots» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lots/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.