noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
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a batch of letters
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a deal of trouble
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a lot of money
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he made a mint on the stock market
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see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
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it must have cost plenty
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a slew of journalists
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a wad of money
• Syn:
↑batch, ↑deal, ↑flock, ↑good deal, ↑great deal, ↑hatful, ↑heap, ↑lot, ↑mass, ↑mess, ↑mickle, ↑mint, ↑mountain, ↑muckle, ↑passel, ↑peck, ↑pile, ↑plenty, ↑pot, ↑raft, ↑sight, ↑slew, ↑spate, ↑stack, ↑tidy sum, ↑wad
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wad (for: ↑wad), ↑plenteous (for: ↑plenty), ↑pile (for: ↑pile), ↑heap (for: ↑heap)
• Hypernyms: ↑large indefinite quantity, ↑large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms: ↑flood, ↑inundation, ↑deluge, ↑torrent, ↑haymow
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a fairly large amount of
some spoke quite a little English
■ a considerable
it turned out to be quite a little bonanza
Useful english dictionary. 2012.