noun. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune.

noun. Good fortune or prosperity; success.

noun. One's personal fate or lot.

intransitive verb. To gain success or something desirable by chance.

idiom. (as luck would have it) As it turned out; as it happened.

idiom. (in luck) Enjoying success; fortunate.

idiom. (out of luck) Lacking good fortune.

idiom. (press/push) To risk one's good fortune, often by acting overconfidently.

idiom. (try (one's) luck) To attempt something without knowing if one will be successful.

To be lucky.

To make lucky.

noun. A lock of wool twisted on the finger of a spinner.

noun. Fortune; hap; that which happens to a person by chance, conceived as having a real tendency to be favorable or unfavorable, or as if there were an inward connection between a succes sion of fortuitous occurrences having the same character as favorable or unfavorable.

noun. Good fortune; favorable hap; a supposed something, pertaining to a person, at least for a time, giving to fortuitous events a favorable character; also, in a weakened sense, a fortuitous combination of favorable occurrences.

noun. An object with which good fortune is thought to be connected; especially, a vessel for holding liquid, as a drinking-cup.

noun. Synonyms See happy.

noun. 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. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck.

noun. a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money.

noun. to receive some good, or to meet with some success, in an unexpected manner, or as the result of circumstances beyond one's control; to be fortunate.

noun. Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.

noun. A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.

noun. success

verb. To succeed by chance.

verb. To rely on luck.

verb. To carry out relying on luck.

noun. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

"While the romantic side of me would like to believe in "luck" - the karmic, cosmic smiling-upon-me type of luck, the scientific side of me completely agrees with Lena West."

fisherman's luck  greasy luck  to be down on one's luck  

Buck  Canuck  Chuck  Duck  Gluck  

Bill  Writings  accident  beer  chance  

accident  accidentality  actuarial calculation  adventitiousness  blessing  

lucked  lucking  lucks