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fall to someone's lot

fall to someone's lot verb: to be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.

Verb

fall to someone's lot (third-person singular simple present falls to someone's lot, present participle falling to someone's lot, simple past fell to someone's lot, past participle fallen to someone's lot)

  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
    Synonyms:
    fall to someone's share

Synonyms of fall to someone's lot

  • fall to someone's share

Forms of fall to someone's lot

third-person singular presentfalls to someone's lot
present participlefalling to someone's lot
pastfell to someone's lot
past participlefallen to someone's lot

Questions about fall to someone's lot

What does fall to someone's lot mean?
Fall to someone's lot means to be destined to happen to someone or to fall in someone's possession.
What part of speech is fall to someone's lot?
Fall to someone's lot is a verb.
What is the past tense of fall to someone's lot?
The past tense of fall to someone's lot is fell to someone's lot.

Words near fall to someone's lot in the dictionary

  1. fall times
  2. fall to
  3. fall to bits
  4. fall to one's knees
  5. fall to pieces
  6. fall to someone's lot
  7. fall to the ground
  8. fall together
  9. fall under
  10. fall up
  11. fall upon

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