luke
see also: Luke
Pronunciation
Luke
Pronunciation
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see also: Luke
Pronunciation
- IPA: /luːk/
luke (not comparable)
- (rare) lukewarm
- 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:
- Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
but he died as soon as he touched the water,
and the warmness was turned into death to him […]
- Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
- 1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, and Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106:
- Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]
- 2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now:
- Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.
- 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:
Luke
Pronunciation
- IPA: /luk/
- A male given name, from grc-koi Λουκᾶς or a shortened form of Lucius.
- 2005 Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743251636, page 94:
- "Your parents like Cool Hand Luke, yes?" "I don't really know. Why?" "Why? Because they name you Luke." I was worried I might have to explain that my name wasn't all that uncommon, and, anyway, Claudia had named me after the alter ego of Hank Williams, Luke the Drifter.
- 2005 Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743251636, page 94:
- Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Colossians 4:14 ↗::
- Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
- (biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.
- Surname, a variant of Luck.
- Surname, a later anglicization of Lúcás (Lucas).
- A village in Čajniče, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- A village in Hadžići, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- A village in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- A village in Tartu, Estonia.
- A village in Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia.
- A village in Moravica, Serbia.
- A town in Maryland, US.
- (given name) Luca, Lucas, Luka
- Lock
- Locke
- Locket
- Lockett
- Lockey
- Lockie
- Lockitt
- Look
- Loukes
- Lucas
- Luck
- Luckes
- Luckett
- Luckman
- Lucks
- Lugg
- Lukeman
- Lukes
- McLucas
- McLuckie
- McLugash
- French: Louké
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