luck, n.
(lucks)
freq. cnt. 16
(lucks)
freq. cnt. 16
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 16 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
circumstances destiny fate fortune lot luck portion
sample sentences
"whatever my fortune may be""deserved a better fate"
"has a happy lot"
"the luck of the Irish"
"a victim of circumstances"
"success that was her portion"
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
<noun.phenomenon> freq. cnt.: 19 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1
chance fortune hazard luck
sample sentences
"bad luck caused his downfall""we ran into each other by pure chance"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
<noun.phenomenon> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
fortune luck
sample sentences
"it was my good luck to be there""they say luck is a lady"
"it was as if fortune guided his hand"