Lucy

¹ American  

[loo-see] / ˈlu si /

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.

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Lucy ² American  

[loo-see] / ˈlu si /

Or Luci

noun

1. a female given name.

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Lucy British  

/ ˈluːsɪ /

noun

1. Saint. died ?303 _ad , a virgin martyred by Diocletian in Syracuse. Feast day: Dec 13

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Lucy Cultural  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of Lucy

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

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Lucy

By Lucy Schiller Flatiron Books: 272 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Deputy Labour Party leader Lucy Powell said Sunday Burnham's mayoral experience away from the London centre of government meant he understood the "bigger, bolder measures" needed to deliver on Labour's election manifesto promises.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Freelance writer and editor Lucy Schiller bumped up against the issues of aging, eldercare and loneliness through her grandmothers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Speaking to Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales, Peston said his wife "loved everything Welsh", including the coastline, and the couple enjoyed taking "endless walks along the cliffs" together.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

“You helped to attend dear Lucy at the end. Let me hear how she died; for all that I know of her, I shall be very grateful. She was very, very dear to me.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker