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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb With or by favorable chance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lucky manner; fortunately; by good fortune; with a favorable issue: as, luckily we escaped injury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb by good fortune

Etymologies

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lucky +‎ -ly

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