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luck·y
1
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ˈlʌk
i
/
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[
luhk
-ee
]
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adjective,
luck·i·er,
luck·i·est.
1.
having or marked by good
luck
; fortunate:
That was my lucky day.
2.
happening fortunately:
a lucky accident.
3.
bringing or foretelling good
luck
, or supposed to do so:
a lucky penny.
Origin:
1495–1505;
luck
+
-y
1
Related forms
luck·i·ness,
noun
Synonyms
1.
favored. See
fortunate
.
3.
auspicious, propitious, favorable.
Antonyms
1.
unfortunate.
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luck·y
2
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ˈlʌk
i
/
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[
luhk
-ee
]
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noun,
plural
luck·ies.
Scot.
1.
a familiar
name
applied to an elderly woman, especially a grandmother; granny.
2.
a familiar name applied to a woman, as one's wife or a barmaid.
Also,
luckie
.
Origin:
1710–20;
luck
+
-y
2
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World English Dictionary
lucky
(ˈlʌkɪ)
—
adj
,
luckier
,
luckiest
1.
having or bringing good fortune
2.
happening by chance, esp as desired
'luckily
—
adv
'luckiness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
lucky
c.1500, of persons; 1540s, of actions or objects;" from
luck
+
-y
(2). Related: Luckiest. Lucky break dates from 1938.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
lucky
see
born under a lucky star
;
strike it rich (lucky)
;
thank one's lucky stars
.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Once ashore, some
lucky
beachcomber finds the sea nugget-
lucky
, because
ambergris costs a small fortune.
So a presidential candidate is
lucky
to have fifteen seconds of unedited speech
on the nightly news at the height of a campaign.
He wasn't no good that feller and you were
lucky
for to lose him.
Lucky
for the students, they don't have to read them.
He was shrew opportunist who were
lucky
and were able to monetize other people's inventions.
The thieves were probably
lucky
to have escaped burial themselves.
Recipe alert for those gardeners
lucky
enough to be able to grow rhubarb.
They were
lucky
to have known their grandparents into adulthood.
Impressed at first sight the
lucky
shot turns into a pretty good picture editing.
Your ancestors were
lucky
to get enough to eat and they were
lucky
if they were fat enough to have babies and survive famines.
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