LOTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lots mean? 

• LOTS (noun)
  The noun LOTS has 1 sense:

1. a large number or amount

  Familiarity information: LOTS used as a noun is very rare.

• LOTS (adverb)
  The adverb LOTS has 1 sense:

1. to a very great degree or extent

  Familiarity information: LOTS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large number or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads

Context example:

she amassed stacks of newspapers

Hypernyms ("lots" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

• LOTS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a very great degree or extent

Synonyms:

a good deal; a great deal; a lot; lots; much; very much

Context example:

this would help a great deal

 Context examples 

The map shows lots of blue and purple in this region, representing water ice less than one foot (30 centimeters) below the surface; warm colors are over two feet (60 centimeters) deep.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

You will have lots of time to think about this, for the crowd of planets in your twelfth house will act like loving little relatives to help guide you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the real world, bacteria always encounter lots of obstacles.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)

People living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with asthma when there are lots of trees in their neighborhood.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I planned it, and she only gave in after lots of teasing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Although many elements are produced in the cores of stars, creating elements heavier than iron, such as strontium, requires even hotter environments with lots of free neutrons.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Until then, drinking lots of fluids, resting and taking non-aspirin fever-reducing medicines might help.

(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

I don't care for the pale people; I like them with lots of blood in them, and hers had all seemed to have run out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Your body produces lots of urine that is almost all water.

(Diabetes Insipidus, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)