montón

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a lot of

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montón
masculine noun
1 heap, pile (pila)
  • a o en montón -> everything together o at once
  • del montón (informal) -> ordinary, run-of-the-mill
2 (informal)
  • un montón de -> a load of, loads of
  • sabe un montón de astronomía -> he knows loads about astronomy
  • me gusta un montón -> I'm mad about him
  • me duele un montón -> it hurts like mad
  • a montones -> by the bucketload
  • tiene dinero a montones -> she's got loads of money, she's loaded

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montón [mon-tone’]
noun
1 Heap, pile. (m)
  • Montón de gente -> crowd, multitude
2 Congeries, mass, cluster. (m)
3 A dirty, lazy fellow. (m)
  • A montones -> abundantly, by heaps

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montón
sustantivo:masculino
1 (gen) heap; pile; [de nieve] pile
del montón ordinary; average
un hombre del montón just an ordinary average chap;o salirse del montón to stand out from the crowd
en montón all jumbled together
2 (familiar) (mucho)
sabe un montón he knows loads; (familiar) tenemos montones we've got loads masses;o (familiar) un montón de loads of; (familiar) masses of; (familiar) un montón de gente loads of people; (familiar) masses of people; (familiar) tardaron un montón de tiempo they took ages; tengo un montón de cosas que decirte I've got loads to tell you; (familiar) a montones: ejemplos hay a montones there is no shortage of examples; tenía baches a montones it was full of potholes
hubo tiros y palos a montones

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clumsy, uncoordinated; slow, dim-witted