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luke

/l(j)uːk//luːk/

luke adjective: lukewarm.

Adjective

luke (not comparable)

  1. lukewarm
    • Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss?1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
      cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
      in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
      but he died as soon as he touched the water,
      and the warmness was turned into death to him […]1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249

Proper noun capitalized: Luke

Luke

  1. A male given name.
    • "Your parents like Cool Hand Luke, yes?" "I don't really know. Why?" "Why? Because they name you Luke." I was worried I might have to explain that my name wasn't all that uncommon, and, anyway, Claudia had named me after the alter ego of Hank Williams, Luke the Drifter.2005, Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 94
    • The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025
  2. Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
    • Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
  3. The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.
    Synonyms:
    Luk.
  4. An English surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Luck.
  5. An Irish surname originating as a patronymic, a later anglicization of Lúcás (Lucas).
  6. A village in Čajniče, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  7. A village in Hadžići, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  8. A village in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  9. A village in Tartu, Estonia.
  10. A village in Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia.
  11. A village in Moravica district, Serbia.
  12. A town in Maryland, United States; named for papermaker William Luke.

luke meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

luke in Hindi

ल्यूक, लूका

luke in Tamil

லூக், லூக்கா

luke in Marathi

ल्यूक, ल्युक

luke in Urdu

لیوک
More languagesFewer languages
luke in Telugu
లూక్, లూకా
luke in Malayalam
ലൂക്ക്, ലൂക്
luke in Kannada
ಲೂಕ್, ಲ್ಯೂಕ್, ಲೂಕಾ
luke in Punjabi
ਲੂਕਾ
luke in Gujarati
લ્યુક, લૂકા
luke in Nepali
ल्युक, लूका

Examples of luke in a sentence

  • Luke North was working in the North East District when Harry Patterson the pony driver came by.
  • Luke Savage is a Toronto writer and producer with the Broadbent Institute.
  • Luke became a winning wrestler because he psyched himself never to get pinned to the mat.

All 16 example sentences with luke

Synonyms of luke

Forms of luke

alternative formLuk.
alternative formLk
alternative formLuc.

Origin of luke

From Middle English leuȝke, leuk, leuke, lewk, lewke, louk, luk, luke, lheuc, probably from Old English *hlēoc beside hlēow- (whence lew); compare rēoc and rēow, slēac and unslēaw, etc. Alternatively, perhaps from a verb, Old English *hlēowcian, *hlīewcian (“to make tepid or lukewarm”), whence possibly Middle English leuken (“to make lukewarm”). Compare also Dutch leuk (“lukewarm”), West Frisian lûk (“sly, clever”), Low German luuk (“lively, cheerful", also "lukewarm, dull, indifferent”).

From Latin Lūcās, from Koine Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs). See the Greek entry for more.

Words formed from luke

Phrases with luke

Words that rhyme with luke

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Questions about luke

What does luke mean?
Luke means lukewarm.
What is luke in Hindi?
Luke in Hindi is ल्यूक, लूका. See Luke meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is luke?
Luke can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce luke?
Luke is pronounced /l(j)uːk/.

Words near luke in the dictionary

  1. Lukaszewski
  2. Lukaszewskis
  3. Lukay
  4. Lukač
  5. Lukbuton
  6. luke
  7. Luke-Acts
  8. lukecold
  9. lukecool
  10. Lukehart
  11. Lukeharts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: luke (page history and authors); Luke (page history and authors); luke (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); luke (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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