GOOD LUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good luck mean? 

• GOOD LUCK (noun)
  The noun GOOD LUCK has 3 senses:

1. an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes

2. a stroke of luck

3. an unexpected piece of good luck

  Familiarity information: GOOD LUCK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD LUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

good fortune; good luck; luckiness

Hypernyms ("good luck" is a kind of...):

circumstances; destiny; fate; fortune; lot; luck; portion (your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good luck"):

prosperity; successfulness (the condition of prospering; having good fortune)

blessing; boon (a desirable state)

Antonym:

bad luck (an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stroke of luck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

fluke; good fortune; good luck

Hypernyms ("good luck" is a kind of...):

fortune; luck (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good luck"):

serendipity (good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An unexpected piece of good luck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

break; good luck; happy chance

Context example:

he finally got his big break

Hypernyms ("good luck" is a kind of...):

accident; chance event; fortuity; stroke (anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause)

 Context examples 

Most people feel a will brings good luck, for once completed, they won’t need it for decades.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Fortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good luck penny in her path.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Until then good-bye and good luck!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So my good luck is all due to her, and I shall never leave her until she starts back to Kansas for good and all.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I think that I have seen all that I wish in this house, and that my time may be more profitably employed elsewhere. Au revoir and good luck!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And here you are, Mary, and you also, Roddy, and good luck to the carronade which has sent me into so snug a harbour without fear of sailing orders.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is the bird’s heart that will bring you this good luck.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Once I lost myself, and it was only by good luck, and after an hour of wandering, that I found the camp once more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he is married, if we have the good luck to live to another war, we shall see him do as you and I, and a great many others, have done.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)