name
Meaning 1
A female given name from Latin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Lucy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈluːsi/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈlʉwsɪj/
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General-American: /ˈlusi/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈlʉːsi/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈlʉse/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /-sɪ/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /-si/
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Wales: /ˈlɪʊsi/
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rhymes with -uːsi
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CMU ARPABET: L UW1 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
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name
Meaning 3
The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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name
Meaning 4
A place name:
A village in Montmort-Lucy commune, Marne department, Grand Est, France.
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name
Meaning 5
A place name:
A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
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name
Meaning 6
A place name:
A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
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name
Meaning 7
A place name:
An unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States.
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noun
Meaning 8
The drug LSD.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: acid, headlight, liquid sunshine, LSD, LSD-25, Lucy, lysergic acid diethylamide
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noun
Meaning 9
The northern pike (a kind of fish).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 10
incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Australopithecus afarensis
History
Etymology
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.
From Latin lūcius.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aragonese: Lucía — female given name
- Catalan: Llúcia — female given name
- Chinese Mandarin: 露西 (Lùxī) — female given name
- Czech: Lucie — female given name
- Danish: Lucia — female given name
- Dutch: Lucia — female given name
- Esperanto: Lucia — female given name
- Esperanto: Lucino — female given name
- Finnish: Lucia — female given name
- French: Lucie — female given name
- Galician: Lucía — female given name
- German: Lucia — female given name
- German: Luzia — female given name
- Greek: Λουκία (Loukía) — female given name
- Hungarian: Lúcia — female given name
- Hungarian: Luca — female given name
- Italian: Lucia — female given name
- Latvian: Lūcija — female given name
- Lithuanian: Liucija — female given name
- Norwegian: Lucia — female given name
- Persian: لوسی (lusi) — female given name
- Polish: Łucja — female given name
- Portuguese: Lúcia — female given name
- Portuguese: Luzia — female given name
- Russian: Лю́сия (Ljúsija) — female given name
- Russian: Лю́си (Ljúsi) — female given name
- Russian: Люси́ (Ljusí) — female given name
- Russian: Лю́ция (Ljúcija) — female given name
- Scottish Gaelic: Liùsaidh — female given name
- Serbo-Croatian: Lucija — female given name
- Sicilian: Lucìa — female given name
- Slovak: Lucia — female given name
- Spanish: Lucía — female given name
- Swedish: Lucia — female given name
- Venetan: Łùzhia — female given name