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Lucy.

A female given name from Latin.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈluːsi/Received-Pronunciation/ˈlʉwsɪj/British, Southern, Standard/ˈlusi/General-American/ˈlʉːsi/Australia, New-Zealand

  1. A female given name from Latin.

  2. A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.

  3. The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was.

  4. A place name: A village in Montmort-Lucy commune, Marne department, Grand Est, France.

  5. A place name: A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.

  6. A place name: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.

  7. A place name: An unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States.

Where this word 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.

noun/ˈluːsi/Received-Pronunciation/ˈlʉwsɪj/British, Southern, Standard/ˈlusi/General-American/ˈlʉːsi/Australia, New-Zealand

  1. The drug LSD.

    slang · uncountable
Where this word 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.

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