Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Someone or something that is lucky has or is marked by good luck. Definition of lucky adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

• Definition of lucky adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
• Lucky, fortunate, happy, providential mean meeting with unforeseen success.
• Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”).
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• Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”).
• Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
• Definition of lucky adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
• Lucky, fortunate, happy, providential mean meeting with unforeseen success.
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• Over 500,000 expert-authored dictionary and thesaurus entries

Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). How is lucky different from happy or fortunate? Lucky, fortunate, happy, providential mean meeting with unforeseen success. French-English dictionary, translator, and learning

Can ‘Fortuitous’ Mean ‘Fortunate’?

Over 500,000 expert-authored dictionary and thesaurus entries Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023 And then watching and putting little things in my ideas bag for next time if I’m lucky enough to be the director again. “I hope those prisoners will remember how lucky they got that the USA came along and did what had to be done.”