Luck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune: They met one day out of pure luck.
  • n. Good fortune or prosperity; success: We wish you luck.
  • n. One's personal fate or lot: It was just my luck to win a trip I couldn't take.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To gain success or something desirable by chance: lucked into a good apartment; lucked out in finding that rare book.
  • idiom. as luck would have it As it turned out; as it happened: As luck would have it, it rained the day of the picnic.
  • idiom. in luck Enjoying success; fortunate.
  • idiom. out of luck Lacking good fortune.
  • idiom. press To risk one's good fortune, often by acting overconfidently.
  • idiom. try (one's) luck To attempt something without knowing if one will be successful.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
  • n. A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
  • n. success
  • v. To succeed by chance.
  • v. To rely on luck.
  • v. To carry out relying on luck.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Fortune; hap; that which happens to a person by chance, conceived as having a real tendency to be favorable or unfavorable, or as if there were an inward connection between a succes sion of fortuitous occurrences having the same character as favorable or unfavorable.
  • n. Good fortune; favorable hap; a supposed something, pertaining to a person, at least for a time, giving to fortuitous events a favorable character; also, in a weakened sense, a fortuitous combination of favorable occurrences.
  • n. An object with which good fortune is thought to be connected; especially, a vessel for holding liquid, as a drinking-cup.
  • n. Synonyms See happy.
  • To be lucky.
  • To make lucky.
  • n. A lock of wool twisted on the finger of a spinner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • n. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
  • n. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
  • Verb Form
    lucked    lucking    lucks   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chance    hap    fate    fortune   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Buck    Canuck    Chuck    Duck    Gluck    Puck    amok    amuck    bruck    buck   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fortune    courage    sir    chance    patience    mistake    fun    ingenuity    accident    intelligence