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The meaning of LADY LUCK is —used to refer to luck as if it were a woman. How to use Lady Luck in a sentence.
Lady Luck definition: the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune. See examples of LADY LUCK used in a sentence.
The personification of fortune, whether good or bad. Sometimes spelled in lower case. The team fought hard down to the last seconds of the game, but Lady Luck just didn't favor them in the end. I hope lady luck is on my side going into this job interview! See also: lady, luck.
Fortuna, engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1541. Fortuna, in Roman religion, goddess of chance or lot who became identified with the Greek Tyche; the original Italian deity was probably regarded as the bearer of prosperity and increase.
mid 1500s. The earliest known use of the noun Lady Luck is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for Lady Luck is from before 1535, in the writing of Thomas More, lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr. Lady Luck is formed within English, by compounding.
Lady Luck — known as Tyche to the Greeks, and Fortuna to the Romans — is a stock god or Allegorical Character, the Anthropomorphic Personification of the concept of chance. In some works and mythologies, she's a real, active deity. In others, she's a metaphor no one literally believes in ( whether correctly or not ).
La′dy Luck′, (sometimes l.c.) the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune:Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game. 1930–35. 'Lady Luck' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): fortune. Forum discussions with the word (s) "Lady Luck" in the title:
