2(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
Synonymsbatches, deals, flocks, good deal*, great deal*, hatfuls, heaps, lots, masses, messes, mickles, mints, muckles, pecks, piles, plenties, pots, quite a little*, rafts, sights, spates, stacks, tidy sum*, wads, whole lot*, whole slew*,
Type oflarge indefinite amount*, large indefinite quantity*,
Typesdeluges, floods, inundations, torrents,