Lucy

¹

[ loo-see ]

noun

1. the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominin found in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis: she has been dated at about 3.2 million years of age.

Lucy

²

or Lu·ci

[ loo-see ]

noun

1. a female given name.

Lucy

/ ˈluːsɪ /

noun

1. Lucy, Saint?303 adFRomanRELIGION: martyrRELIGION: saint Saint. died ?303 ad , a virgin martyred by Diocletian in Syracuse. Feast day: Dec 13

Lucy

1. Nickname for one of the most complete skeletons of an early ancestor of humans ever found. Discovered in Ethiopia by Don Johanson, Tim White, and Tom Gray, Lucy lived approximately three million years ago. She walked upright, and anthropologists estimate that she was about twenty years old when she died. Lucy is considered one of the great finds of anthropology .

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lucy¹

First recorded in 1970–75; after the Beatles' song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (released in 1967), a tape of which was played in the discoverers' camp during the expedition

Example Sentences

But, I can’t have breakfast with Lucy, but also work on my unifying theory of behavior change at the very same time.

From Freakonomics

Though Tschudi had left more than a decade ago, Lucy said, staff members “are grieving the loss of one of our own.”

From Washington Post

Liberals are taking issue with Manchin’s Lucy-and-the-football fake-out.

From Time

She urges Lucy to ignore him, noting that he’ll just move on to someone else, advice that Lucy, rightly, rails against.

From Time

Lucy and Suzanne began to see themselves as outsiders, bound to each other and fighting the world around them.

From Washington Post

The film will also star Pam Grier, Michael Richards (of Seinfeld), Peter Bogdanovich, and, he says, “hopefully Lucy Liu.”

From The Daily Beast

Upon his return, she unpacked his bag and discovered love letters between him and her social secretary, Lucy Mercer.

From The Daily Beast

In the midst of this rampage, I found myself talking with Lucy Big Lake.

From The Daily Beast

Lucy can control matter, and all the rules of existence are abolished.

From The Daily Beast

When Lucy is demonstrating her power to the audience, it is through violence toward these (brown) men.

From The Daily Beast

But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, Lucy has been your only serious competitor this season; I wonder you aren't jealous of each other.

From Project Gutenberg

"It's not fair, Lucy," said Mrs. Haggard reprovingly, with an attempt at matronly dignity.

From Project Gutenberg

Is it not enough that this man shall every morning sit down to breakfast with the lovely Mees Lucy?

From Project Gutenberg

Lucy Warrender, ever ready for mischief, feigned an intense interest in racing matters, but failed to draw Lord Hetton.

From Project Gutenberg