WordNet
n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole slew]
Usage examples of "whole lot".
Spaceways, Spaceways Provisioning Company, Artemis Mines, Luna City Recreations, the whole lot of them.
But to this day, science does not know a whole lot more about the purpose or function of the pineal than he did.
And where Susan felt Natalie couldn't go to the nearby elementary school dressed a whole lot poorer than the other girls.
At some point, it is likely that strenuous, concerted efforts to kill them will be made by a whole lot of Germans and, if they happen to be feeling impetuous that day, Italians.
And there was a whole lot of tradition attached to Henderson Hall.
While sweat-stained sailcloth tunics weren't at all rare around the docks, there couldn't be a whole lot of short, dark-skinned sailors with waist-length pigtails and thick, hairy legs who carried themselves with the rolling swagger and easy confidence of a ship's captain.
While he liked horses and all, there really didn't seem to be a whole lot of value or knowledge to be gained from being up to your calves in horseshit, the smell combining with a nauseating breakfast.
Besides, we didn't have the manpower to move a whole lot of earth, not even if you include Ellegon.
But, personally, I can't say it has done that to me you'd hardly believe it, sir, but once or twice, when the whole lot of the brutes have been raging against me, I've been very nearly happy.
But it would be nice to know if Moiraine had some special interest in him, over and above what she had in the whole lot of them.