fortune; fate; success, good fortune
have good luck, luck-out, succeed through chance, have an instance of exceptionally good luck
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Luck Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Luck Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThat 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.
luck
into v : take possession of; "she entered upon the estate of her rich relatives" [syn: enter upon, come upon]
similar words(14)
to strike one luck
bad luck
ill luck
luck penny
luck through
luck into
luck out
tough luck
as luck would have it
good luck
by luck
good luck charm
to be in luck
luck it
Origin
From Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
FALSTAFF:
You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes
in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's
approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's
distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
© 2004 The Phrase Finder. Take a look at Phrase Finder’s sister site, the Phrases Thesaurus, a subscription service for professional writers & language lovers.From Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
FALSTAFF:
You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes
in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's
approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's
distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
ádh m.g
good luck!: ádh mór ort! (litteraly, best of luck)
good luck!: ádh mór ort! (litteraly, best of luck)
Ffawd = n. fortune, luck; fate; prosperity; happiness
Gorffawd = n. extreme luck
Hap = n. luck, chance, fortune
Tyngied = n. destiny, fate, luck
congratulation to smb. in an envious way
run out of luck; have bad luck
luck ran out, very unlucky
1. bad luck; 2. serves yourself right!; 3. off-hand expression of sympathy
Noun
1. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
(synonym) fortune, destiny, fate, lot, circumstances, portion
(hypernym) condition
(hyponym) good fortune, good luck
2. 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"
(synonym) fortune, chance, hazard
(hypernym) phenomenon
(hyponym) bad luck, mischance, mishap
3. 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"
(synonym) fortune
(hypernym) phenomenon
(hyponym) good luck, fluke, good fortune
Luck Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
Luck Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Luck or fortunity is good fortune which occurs beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result. There are at least two senses people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and the descriptive sense. In the prescriptive sense, luck is the supernatural and deterministic concept that there are forces (e.g. gods or spirits) which prescribe that certain events occur very much the way the laws of physics will prescribe that certain events occur. It is the prescriptive sense that people mean when they state that they "do not believe in luck". In the descriptive sense, luck is merely a name we give to events after they occur which we find to be fortuitous and perhaps improbable.
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The name Lück may refer to:
- Ingolf Lück
- Thomas Lück
- Heidi Lück
- Wolfgang Lück
- Siegfried Lück
- Hans-Joachim Lück
- Petra Kusch-Lück
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Lutsk (, translit. Luts'k, , or Луцк, transliterated Lutchak or Lutsk) is a city located by the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutskyi Raion (district) within the oblast. The city is also designated as a separate raion of its own within the oblast.
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Luck Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
Imaginary substance believed by many players to aid in winning. Should not be relied upon in place of skill.
