passel

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, ↑peck, ↑pile, ↑plenty, ↑pot, ↑quite a little, ↑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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passel

dial., etc. var. parcel.