Lucy

¹

[loo-see]

noun

1. the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominin found in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis: she has been dated at about 3.2 million years of age.

Lucy

²

Or Lu·ci

[loo-see]

noun

1. a female given name.

Lucy

/ ˈluːsɪ /

noun

1. Saint. died ?303 _ad , a virgin martyred by Diocletian in Syracuse. Feast day: Dec 13

Lucy

1. Nickname for one of the most complete skeletons of an early ancestor of humans ever found. Discovered in Ethiopia by Don Johanson, Tim White, and Tom Gray, Lucy lived approximately three million years ago. She walked upright, and anthropologists estimate that she was about twenty years old when she died. Lucy is considered one of the great finds of anthropology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lucy¹

First recorded in 1970–75; after the Beatles' song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (released in 1967), a tape of which was played in the discoverers' camp during the expedition

Example Sentences

With England international Lucy Bronze still recovering from the broken tibia she played with during Euro 2025, Carpenter was handed an immediate chance to make an impression.

From BBC

Lucy Powell, who was leader of the House of Commons, has also left the government.

From BBC

By the end of the second film, Tom and Lucy have a baby of their own and are living away from Downton.

From Los Angeles Times

Lucy Bronze is England's most decorated female footballer.

From BBC

He said the jail sentence given to Lucy Connolly - who was imprisoned after pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers - was "living proof of what can go wrong" with free speech restrictions.

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