luck
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,573 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,631 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) also: fortune, destiny, fate, lot, circumstances, portion whatever my fortune may bedeserved a better fate
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another also: fortune, chance, hazard bad luck caused his downfallwe ran into each other by pure chance
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome also: fortune it was my good luck to be therethey say luck is a lady
luck in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And, though he try his best, be "out of luck."
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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To think that such good luck had come to her!
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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And cried, "We are in luck to-day, How glorious we shall sup!"
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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While I was talking to the station agent I had my one piece of luck.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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I should have known it could not be; For luck, of late, is gone from me.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1