Meanings
noungood luck (uncountable)
- uncountableDesirable or beneficial fortune.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLCSynonyms: good fortune, horseshoe up one's ass, felicity, fortune, fortuitousness, fortuity, good cess, good fortune · Antonyms: bad luck
interjection
- Used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement; a benediction or valediction.
Near-synonym: God bless
Synonyms: best of luck, break a leg, come on, more power to your elbow, toi, toi, toi, God bless
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDesirable or beneficial fortune.
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interjectionUsed to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement; a benediction or valediction.
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See Thesaurus:bad luck
More synonyms by meaning
nounan auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
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Translations
Afrikaans voorspoed, sterkte
- voorspoedused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- sterkteused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Ancient Greek εὐτυχία
- εὐτυχία (eutukhía)positive fortune
Arabic بِالتَّوْفِيق!, حَظًّا سَعِيدًا!
- بِالتَّوْفِيق! (bi-t-tawfīq!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- حَظًّا سَعِيدًا! (ḥaẓẓan saʕīdan!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- حَظّ سَعِيد! (ḥaẓẓ saʕīd!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- بِالنَّجَاح (bi-n-najāḥ)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Bulgarian на до́бър час!, успех!
- на до́бър час! (na dóbăr čas!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- успех! (uspeh!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Catalan sort!, bona sort!
- sort!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- bona sort!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- molta sort!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Chinese Cantonese 好彩, 祝你好運 /祝你好运
- 好彩 (hou² coi²)positive fortune
- 祝你好運 /祝你好运 (zuk¹ nei⁵ hou² wan⁶)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Chinese Mandarin 好運 /好运, 幸運 /幸运
- 好運 /好运 (hǎoyùn)positive fortune
- 幸運 /幸运 (xìngyùn)positive fortune
- 機緣 /机缘 (jīyuán)positive fortune
- 造化 (zàohua)positive fortune
- 福氣 /福气 (fúqì)positive fortune
- 運氣 /运气 (yùnqi)positive fortune
- 紅運 /红运 (hóngyùn)positive fortune
- 大幸 (dàxìng)positive fortune
- 祝你好運 /祝你好运 (zhù nǐ hǎoyùn)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 加油 (jiāyóu)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 乾巴得 /干巴得 (gānbādei)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Czech štěstí, hodně štěstí!
- štěstípositive fortune
- hodně štěstí!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Danish held, held og lykke
- heldpositive fortune
- held og lykkeused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Dutch veel geluk!, (veel) succes!
- veel geluk!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- (veel) succes!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Esperanto bonan ŝancon!
- bonan ŝancon!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Estonian edu!
- edu!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Finnish hyvä onni, onnea!
- hyvä onnipositive fortune
- onnea!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- tsemppiäused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- lykkyä tyköused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- onnea matkaanused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
French veine, bol
- veinepositive fortune
- bolpositive fortune
- culpositive fortune
- bonne chanceused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- bon courageused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
German viel Glück!, viel Erfolg!
- viel Glück!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- viel Erfolg!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Greek καλή τύχη!, καλή επιτυχία
- καλή τύχη! (kalí týchi!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- καλή επιτυχία (kalí epitychía)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Hebrew בְּהַצְלָחָה
- בְּהַצְלָחָה (behatslakhá)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Hindi शुभ कामना!
- शुभ कामना! (śubh kāmnā!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Hungarian szerencse, sok szerencsét!
- szerencsepositive fortune
- sok szerencsét!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- sok sikert!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Icelandic gæfa, gangi þér vel!
- gæfapositive fortune
- gangi þér vel!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- gangi ykkur vel!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Indonesian semoga beruntung, semangat
- semoga beruntungused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- semangatused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Irish sonas, ádh mór
- sonaspositive fortune
- ádh mórused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- go n-éirí an t-ádh leatused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- go n-éirí leatused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Italian fortuna, buona fortuna
- fortunapositive fortune
- buona fortunaused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- in bocca al lupoused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Japanese 幸運, 頑張って！
- 幸運 (kōun)positive fortune
- 頑張って！ (ganbatte!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- がんばれ！ (ganbare!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 健闘を祈る (kentō o inoru)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 幸運を (kōun o)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 頑張ってください (ganbatte kudasai!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Korean 행운, 행운을 빕니다
- 행운 (haeng'un)positive fortune
- 행운을 빕니다 (haeng'uneul bimnida)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 행운을 빌어요 (haeng'uneul bireoyo)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 행운을 빈다 (haeng'uneul binda)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 파이팅 (paiting)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- 화이팅 (hwaiting)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Latin felicitas, feliciter
- felicitaspositive fortune
- feliciterused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Latvian veiksmi!
- veiksmi!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Lithuanian sėkmės!
- sėkmės!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Malay semoga berjaya!
- semoga berjaya!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Norwegian lykke til
- lykke tilused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Persian موفق باشید, موفق باشی
- موفق باشید (movaffaq bâšid)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- موفق باشی (movaffaq bâši)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Polish szczęście, powodzenia
- szczęściepositive fortune
- powodzeniaused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Portuguese sorte, boa sorte!
- sortepositive fortune
- boa sorte!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Punjabi ਭਾਗ ਚੰਗੇ ਹੋਣ
- ਭਾਗ ਚੰਗੇ ਹੋਣ (bhāg caṅge hoṇ)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Romanian noroc!, mult noroc!
- noroc!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- mult noroc!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- succes!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- bună șansă!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Russian уда́ча, везе́ние
- уда́ча (udáča)positive fortune
- везе́ние (vezénije)positive fortune
- уда́чи! (udáči!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- жела́ю уда́чи! (želáju udáči!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- успе́ха! (uspéxa!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Scottish Gaelic sonas, gur math a thèid leat
- sonaspositive fortune
- gur math a thèid leatused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- gur math a thèid leibhused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- gun tèid leatused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Slovak veľa šťastia
- veľa šťastiaused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Spanish suerte, baraka
- suertepositive fortune
- barakapositive fortune
- buenaventurapositive fortune
- chepapositive fortune
- a la champapositive fortune
- venturanzapositive fortune
- buena suerteused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- suerteused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- mucha suerteused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Swahili kila la kheri
- kila la kheriused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Swedish lycka till
- lycka tillused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Tagalog kaya mo 'yan!, galingan mo!
- kaya mo 'yan!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- galingan mo!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Thai โชคดี, ขอให้โชคดี
- โชคดี (chôok-dii)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- ขอให้โชคดี (kɔ̌ɔ-hâi chôok-dii)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Turkish iyi şans, iyi şanslar
- iyi şanspositive fortune
- iyi şanslarused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Ukrainian уда́чі!, щасти́!
- уда́чі! (udáči!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- щасти́! (ščastý!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- хай щасти́ть! (xaj ščastýtʹ!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- неха́й щасти́ть! (nexáj ščastýtʹ!)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Urdu شبھ کامنا, کامیاب رہیے
- شبھ کامناused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- کامیاب رہیے (kāmyāb rahiye)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Vietnamese chúc may mắn!
- chúc may mắn!used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Welsh pob lwc
- pob lwcused to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
Yiddish זאָל זײַן מיט מזל, זאָל זײַן מיט גליק
- זאָל זײַן מיט מזל (zol zayn mit mazl)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- זאָל זײַן מיט גליק (zol zayn mit glik)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- מיטן רעכטן פֿוס (mitn rekhtn fus)used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
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