Luck
[lʌk]
Definition
(noun.) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; 'bad luck caused his downfall'; 'we ran into each other by pure chance'.
(noun.) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; 'it was my good luck to be there'; 'they say luck is a lady'; 'it was as if fortune guided his hand'.
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Definition
(n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chance, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, fate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CHANCE]
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Definition
n. fortune good or bad: chance: lot: good fortune.—adv. Luck′ily.—n. Luck′iness.—adj. Luck′less without good luck: unhappy.—adv. Luck′lessly.—ns. Luck′lessness; Luck′-penn′y a trifle returned for luck by a seller to a buyer: a coin carried for luck.—adj. Luck′y having good luck: auspicious.—n. Luck′y-bag a receptacle for lost property on board a man-of-war.—Be down on one's luck to be unfortunate.
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Examples
- That was for luck. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As luck would have it, Raggles' house in Curzon Street was to let when Rawdon and his wife returned to London. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He would try to write it and if he had luck and could remember it perhaps he could get it down as she told it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His luck's got fouled under the keels of the barges. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Just my luck! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And what's more,--he's in luck again, by George if he ain't! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Good luck, Catherine said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was the luck of Britain that they remained, though dissentient in spirit, under the British flag. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some might think him, and others might think her, the most in luck. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I thought he was rather a handsome fellow, and I thought I should have been much the same sort of fellow, if I had had any luck. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That manner of speaking never brings luck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I will consider that in meeting her to-night I have met with one of those birds whose appearance is to the sailor the harbinger of good luck. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That 'ere Dodger has such a run of luck that there's no standing again' him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Boast not of that, said a Knight of St John, who was present; your Temple champion had no better luck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Happily Lydgate had ended by losing in the billiard-room, and brought away no encouragement to make a raid on luck. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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