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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skeletal remains of a female hominin, Australopithecus afarensis, found in Ethiopia in 1974 and dated at about 3 million years old. Lucy is the most complete australopith skeleton yet discovered, being about 40 percent intact.
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- proper noun A female
given name . - proper noun A
surname derived from place names inNormandy based on a male personal name, from LatinLucius .
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- noun incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
Etymologies
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Examples
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WENDY AND LUCY (2008, Oscilloscope, unrated, $30) - A cash-strapped young woman (Michelle Williams) driving cross-country to job opportunities in Alaska gets busted for shoplifting dog food and loses her beloved pooch Lucy.
Latest News 2009
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WENDY AND LUCY (2008, Oscilloscope, unrated, $30) - A cash-strapped young woman (Michelle Williams) driving cross-country to job opportunities in Alaska gets busted for shoplifting dog food and loses her beloved pooch Lucy.
Latest News 2009
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LUCY THE ELEPHANT, Margate - Built in 1881 and handcrafted from 1 million pieces of wood covered by 12,000 square feet of tin skin, Lucy was designed as an eye-catching ad to lure investors to beachfront property south of Atlantic City.
Latest News 2008
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Early in their relationship, Lily had heard Aaron mention he liked the name Lucy any L name, really!
Paper Lanterns Peter Kispert 2011
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Lily will be launching the label Lucy in Disguise at designer Wayne Hemingway's fashion and music festival Vintage this August.
Home 2010
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Don't look for such wit in "Lucy" -- or much excitement.
"Lucy," a half-ape/half-human thriller by Laurence Gonzales Michael Sims 2010
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Don't look for such wit in "Lucy" -- or much excitement.
"Lucy," a half-ape/half-human thriller by Laurence Gonzales Michael Sims 2010
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The book begins at our beginning with the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia and why this was such an important discovery – as to whether Lucy is actually female or just simply a male of small stature, remains unknown.
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The book begins at our beginning with the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia and why this was such an important discovery – as to whether Lucy is actually female or just simply a male of small stature, remains unknown.
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In America she had taken the name Lucy, and had fallen in love with an American student called Luke.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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