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

"My cousin Owen and friend Lucy are both alive because of the hospital and charity," Faye said.

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Lucy Robinson, 37, found herself suffering from loneliness after losing her nan and stepfather within a six-month period.

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Lucy Davies sees the devastation repossessions can have on a daily basis.

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She was joined in fifth place by American Lucy Li, who posted a 65, and Mexico's Gaby Lopez, who shot 67.

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He said the culture in No 10 was "toxic" and that Lucy Powell, the party's new deputy leader, had been right to call for a change of culture in Downing Street.

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