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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fall to someone's lot en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (dated, intransitive) To be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.
    • It did not fall to his lot to save her, though I know he would freely give his own life to have done it. 1859, Charles Dickens, Hunted Down:
    • I should think he earned ten thousand a year, and his knighthood was but the first of the honours which must inevitably fall to his lot. 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 50”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fell to someone's lot Tense=Past lexicographic
falling to someone's lot Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
falls to someone's lot Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
fallen to someone's lot Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

fall to someone's share