LUCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lucy mean? 

• LUCY (noun)
  The noun LUCY has 1 sense:

1. incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974

  Familiarity information: LUCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Instance hypernyms:

Australopithecus afarensis (fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago)

Holonyms ("Lucy" is a member of...):

Australopithecus; genus Australopithecus (extinct genus of African hominid)

 Context examples 

Was his engagement to Lucy an engagement of the heart?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Strangely enough, Lucy did not wake; but she got up twice and dressed herself.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Copperfield, Miss Crewler—Miss Sarah—Miss Louisa—Margaret and Lucy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed.

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

It is often so in such matches, and little Lucy is darker far than ever her father was.

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

You remember the Gregorys; they are grown up amazing fine girls, but they will hardly speak to me, because Lucy is courted by a lieutenant.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In 2016, researchers working in the Afar region of Ethiopia, some 35 miles away from Hadar, the region in which Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis human ancestor, was found, discovered a nearly complete cranium of another early human ancestor, Australopithecus anamensis, that dates to 3.8 million years ago.

(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)

Writing to each other, said Lucy, returning the letter into her pocket, is the only comfort we have in such long separations.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Lucy walks more than ever, and each night I am awakened by her moving about the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Another, Lucy Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few months.

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