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Lucy¹
- /ˈluːsi/ UK
- /ˈlʉwsɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈlusi/ US
- /ˈlʉːsi/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈlʉse/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /-sɪ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /-si/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /ˈlɪʊsi/ Wales
Rhymes with -uːsi
Where it comes from
From Middle English Lucy, from Old French Lucie (notably after the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracuse), from Latin Lucia (feminine of Lucius, a Roman praenomen), from lux (“light”).
The name of the Australopithecus skeleton came from the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, which was being played repeatedly at the dig site camp at the time of the discovery. The slang term for LSD also derives from the song name, which many believe is essentially a reference to the drug.
proper noun
- A female given name from Latin. Then did my younger brother Amidas / Love that same other Damzell, Lucy bright, / To whom but little dowre allotted was; / Her vertue was the dowre, that did delight.
- A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius. Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.
- The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was. A new analysis of Lucy’s bones suggests that she may have fallen to her death from a tall tree. […] In 1974, scientists working in Ethiopia uncovered an extraordinary female skeleton, whom they called Lucy. She was 3.2 million years old, and belonged to a new species of hominid now known as Australo
- A village in Montmort-Lucy commune, Marne department, Grand Est, France.
- A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
- A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- An unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States.
noun
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The drug LSD.
Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes/Cellophane flowers of yellow and green/Towering over your head/Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes/And she's gone/Lucy in the Sky with Diamo
Similar: acid, headlight, liquid sunshine, LSD, LSD-25, Lucy, lysergic acid diethylamide
lucy²
Where it comes from
From Latin lūcius.
noun lucies
- The northern pike (a kind of fish). That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: lucia, lucille, luca, fairfax, luce, oblivion, gift, luc, lucie, light, luminous, lucent, bright, radiant, shining, gleaming
Translations
Talk about this word "lucy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lucy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. lucy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lucy "lucy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lucy.Cite this
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howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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