Luck

Noun

 * 1) Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
 * The raffle is just a matter of luck.
 * 1) A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
 * He blew on the dice for luck.

Synonyms

 * fortune (both sense)

Derived terms

 * down on one's luck
 * lucky
 * lucky break
 * luck out
 * luck of the draw
 * luck upon


 * push one's luck
 * ride one's luck
 * run of bad luck
 * sheer luck
 * streak of good luck

Verb

 * 1)  To succeed by chance
 * His plan lucked out.
 * 1)  To rely on luck.
 * No plan. We're just to going to have to luck through.
 * 1)  To carry out relying on luck.
 * Our plan is to luck it through.

Adjectives for Luck
imaginable; ragged; blundering; unmerited; hard; monumental; good; ill; incredible; unearned; foolish.

Verbs for Luck
ascribe to—; bemoan—; beset by—; bewail —; deplore—; earn—; encounter—; face —; fall into—; stake on—; trust to—; — attends; —befalls; —chases; —deals; —deserts; —disheartens; —ebbs; —favors; — mocks; —pursues; —singles out; —soars.

Thesaurus
accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, blessing, break, bump, calculated risk, capriciousness, casualness, chance, chances, chanciness, changeableness, destiny, erraticism, erraticness, fate, felicity, fickleness, flier, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortunateness, fortune, fortunes, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, happy fortune, hazard, heedless hap, hesitancy, hesitation, hit, how they fall, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, irresolution, law of averages, light, lot, luckiness, meet, moira, occasion, opportunity, play, plunge, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, randomness, risk, run of luck, serendipity, smiles of fortune, speculation, statistical probability, stroke of luck, stumble, suspense, suspensefulness, the breaks, theory of probability, tumble, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, venture, whatever comes, whimsicality

Etymology
Shortened form of Middle Dutch: gheluc (happiness). Compare Modern Dutch geluk and German Glück.

Noun

 * Albanian:
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 * Arabic: (ḥaẓẓ),  (baxt)
 * Moroccan: (zhr)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zori,
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 * Mandarin:, , ,
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 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: onni, tuuri, munkki,
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 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: heppni, lukka
 * Ido:


 * Interlingua: sorte
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 運 (うん, un), 運勢 (うんせい, unsei)
 * Korean: 운 (un)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: به‌خت
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: среќа
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 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: срећа
 * Roman: sreća
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 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: అదృష్టం
 * Volapük: läb
 * West Frisian: lok, gelok
 * West Frisian: lok, gelok