Definition of Luck

1. Noun. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). "Success that was her portion"


2. Noun. An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. "We ran into each other by pure chance"
Exact synonyms: Chance, Fortune, Hazard
Generic synonyms: Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Bad Luck, Mischance, Mishap, Even Chance, Toss-up, Tossup
Derivative terms: Chance, Hazard

3. Noun. An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome. "It was as if fortune guided his hand"
Exact synonyms: Fortune
Generic synonyms: Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Fluke, Good Fortune, Good Luck
Derivative terms: Lucky, Lucky

Definition of Luck

1. 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.

Definition of Luck

1. to succeed by chance or good fortune [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Luck

Lucille Ball
lucimycin
Lucio's leprosy
Lucio's leprosy phenomenon
lucipetal
Lucite
lucites
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Clay
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
Lucius DuBignon Clay
Lucius Licinius Luculus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
luck (current term)
Lucke's adenocarcinoma
Lucke's test
Lucke's virus
lucked
lucken
luckenschadel
Lucke carcinoma
luckie
luckier
luckies
luckiest
luckily
luckiness
luckinesses

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