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Meaning of luck

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  luck
      n 1: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including
           everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may
           be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck
           of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that
           was her portion" [syn: {fortune}, {destiny}, {fate},
           {luck}, {lot}, {circumstances}, {portion}]
      2: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event
         to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his
         downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn:
         {luck}, {fortune}, {chance}, {hazard}]
      3: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a
         favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they
         say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
         [syn: {luck}, {fortune}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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