Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you):
— The luck of the Irish.

synoniemen: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion.

Roget 734: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence etc. (wealth) 803; success etc. 731; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.    luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.    Saturnia regna [Lat.], Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city [Coll.]; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.    made man, lucky dog, enfant gate [Fr.], spoiled child of fortune.    upstart, parvenu, skipjack^†, mushroom.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 621: chance etc. 156; lot, fate etc. (necessity) 601; luck; good luck etc. (good) 618; mascot.    speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke etc. (uncertainty) 475; fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer [Slang]; limit.    uncertainty; uncertainty principle, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.    drawing lots; sortilegy^†, sortition^†; sortes^†, sortes Virgilianae^†; rouge et noir [Fr.], hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.    gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.    [person who takes chances] gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer; dicer^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: geluk, toedracht

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another:
— Bad luck caused his downfall.

synoniemen: chance, fortune, hazard.

Roget 156: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc^†, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate etc. (necessity) 601; equal chance; lottery; tombola^†; toss up etc. 621; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes^†, sortes Virgilianae^†.    probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck; accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.    contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; situation (circumstance) 8.    statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming etc. 621.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: risico, onheilsdreiging, dreiging, kans

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.

synoniem: fortune.

Nederlands: lot, bof, fortuin, geluk, mazzel, zwijn, zwijntje