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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
luckily
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Luckily, no one was injured in the accident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And luckily for me, it's worked out.
▪ I most luckily found a room in West Hampstead.
▪ My captor found no reply to this, but luckily a Monster Fish Maiden spoke up for him.
▪ Shakur has charisma, and, luckily, the less thankless role: at least his character has a vestige of scruples.
▪ Then, luckily, the jukebox was turned off and the live music started.
▪ They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.
▪ They were the ugly Stones to the Osmonds' beautiful Beatles and, luckily, ugly was in.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luckily

Luckily \Luck"i*ly\, adv. [From Lucky.] In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
luckily

1520s, from lucky + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
luckily

adv. In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.

WordNet
luckily

adv. by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good" [syn: fortunately, fortuitously, as luck would have it] [ant: unfortunately, unfortunately]

Usage examples of "luckily".

Luckily, there are such weapons available to us, now that the Armoury has been re-opened.

A surgeon happening luckily to be in the house, immediately attended, and applied himself to dressing his wounds, which I had the pleasure to hear were not likely to be mortal.

Luckily, however, he was not as effeminate as his younger brother, the Cyprian, who never managed to sire any children: Auletes and Cleopatra Tryphaena confidently expected to give Egypt heirs.

Luckily, almost all the Zaks would have already exhausted their supply of bazooka rockets, because without his beam rifle he would have no choice but to use the beam saber in close-quarter combat.

Luckily the Boche did not interfere in this little humorous interlude.

Luckily enough though, I had the previous week purchased a Saab 9000 from a huckster culchie car dealer I had met in the car one Sunday night, so after a week of toing and froing between insurers, Dublin City Council and the NCTS, I was back on the road.

Luckily he gave me enough time to recollect myself, as he talked on for a quarter of an hour without noticing that I did not open my lips.

She was handsome, and might have been victorious if she had liked, but luckily she did not think of exerting her power, and so gained nothing.

Luckily I had got valuable effects, so this second consideration did not trouble me much.

Luckily my brother Dide had a house where he could stay and do his best to drink the cellars dry.

Luckily, the fish was intact, though he hid behind a clump of elodea at the back of the tank.

And luckily the weather, though as foul as can be imagined, was not cold: luckily, for all the beds aboard Surprise had to be stuffed into those shocking started butts, where the sea came pouring in for the first two days, in spite of all the fothering in the world.

Luckily, at the last stage, on the lip of the gunnel, it would often happen that a turtle would help me without meaning to.

Do you know, sir, you might have killed me if your shot had not luckily missed.

I was on my feet again in an instant, and seizing the stick I aimed a sturdy blow at his head, which, luckily for him, he partially parried.