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. 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

Phillipson's rival in the contest, her former cabinet colleague Lucy Powell, has also criticised the cap and said scrapping it would be the "single biggest policy we could do to address child poverty".

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Rival deputy leadership candidates Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell went head-to-head in a hustings at the very end of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

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"We've known for years that women's rough sleeping is underestimated, from women's own accounts of their situation," explains Lucy Campbell, assistant director at Single Homeless Project.

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Ballet dancer Lucy Balfour says she experienced great "joy" performing the contemporary pieces Ghost Dances while pregnant with her first child.

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Replacement Lucy Parker is used by Mitchell to bring similar high levels of energy off the bench and that decision might need to happen sooner than usual to counter Pelletier.

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