lucy
UK/ˈluːsi/
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British/ˈlʉwsɪj/
lucy noun: the northern pike (a kind of fish).
Noun (1)
lucy (plural lucies)
- The northern pike (a kind of fish).
- That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, pg. 38
Proper noun capitalized: Lucy
Lucy
- A female given name from Latin.
- Then did my younger brother Amidas / Love that same other Damzell, Lucy bright, / To whom but little dowre allotted was; / Her vertue was the dowre, that did delight.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9
- She liv'd unknown, and few could know / When Lucy ceas'd to be; / But she is in her Grave, and, Oh ! / The difference to me.1800, W[illiam] Wordsworth, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, in Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. […], 2nd edition, London: […] T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Co....
- A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
- Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was.
- A new analysis of Lucy’s bones suggests that she may have fallen to her death from a tall tree. […] In 1974, scientists working in Ethiopia uncovered an extraordinary female skeleton, whom they called Lucy. She was 3.2 million years old, and belonged to a new species of hominid now known as...2016 August 29, Ed Yong, “What Killed the World’s Most Famous Fossil?”, in The Atlantic
- A village in Montmort-Lucy commune, Marne department, Grand Est, France.
- A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
- A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- An unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States.
Noun (2) capitalized: Lucy
Lucy (uncountable)
- The drug LSD.
- Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes/Cellophane flowers of yellow and green/Towering over your head/Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes/And she's gone/Lucy in the Sky with...1967, Lennon–McCartney, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
- The last time I made moocah, or dug sweet Lucy, was with Janis Joplin, who gave me one that must have been rolled by Montezuma himself. I saw my thoughts in clear letters, and they both felt and looked like a double strike on a coin […].1974, Dick Cavett, Chris Porterfield, Cavett, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 234
- Synonyms:
- acid, headlight, liquid sunshine, LSD, LSD-25, lysergic acid diethylamide
lucy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lucy in Hindi
- लुसी, लूसी
lucy in Tamil
- லூசி, லூஸி
lucy in Marathi
- लुसी, ल्युसी, लूसी
lucy in Urdu
- لوسی, لیوسی
More languagesFewer languages
- lucy in Bengali
- লুসি, লসি, ল্যুসি
- lucy in Telugu
- లూసీ, లుసీ, లూసి
- lucy in Malayalam
- ലൂസി, ലുസി
- lucy in Kannada
- ಲೂಸಿ, ಲುಸಿ
- lucy in Punjabi
- ਲੂਸੀ, ਲੁਸੀ, ਲੂਸਸੀ
- lucy in Gujarati
- લુસી, લ્યુસી, લૂસી
- lucy in Odia
- ଲୁସି
- lucy in Nepali
- लुसी, लूसी, ल्युसी
Examples of lucy in a sentence
- Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- Lucy dreams of becoming a scientist when she grows up.
- Lucy, loved by everyone in her family, refused to detrain and insisted on staying aboard for the entire journey.
Synonyms of lucy
Forms of lucy
| plural | lucies |
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Origin of lucy
From Latin lūcius.
From Middle English Lucy, from Old French Lucie (notably after the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracuse), from Latin Lucia (feminine of Lucius, a Roman praenomen), from lux (“light”). The name of the Australopithecus skeleton came from the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, which was being played repeatedly at the dig site camp at the time of the discovery. The slang term for LSD also derives from the song name, which many believe is essentially a reference to the drug.
Words formed from lucy
Phrases with lucy
Words that rhyme with lucy
Questions about lucy
- What does lucy mean?
- Lucy means the northern pike (a kind of fish).
- What is lucy in Hindi?
- Lucy in Hindi is लुसी, लूसी. See Lucy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lucy?
- Lucy can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lucy?
- Lucy is pronounced /ˈluːsi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lucy?
- The plural of lucy is lucies.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucy (page history and authors); Lucy (page history and authors); lucy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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