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SERENDIPITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does serendipity mean?
• SERENDIPITY (noun)
The noun SERENDIPITY has 1 sense:
1. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
Familiarity information: SERENDIPITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("serendipity" is a kind of...):
fluke; good fortune; good luck (a stroke of luck)
Derivation:
serendipitous (lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries)
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