lucasian
/luːˈkeɪziən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
adj
Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
adj
Of or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
Example Sentences
- "Lucas is the intellectual leader of this approach, which I shall refer to as Lucasian."
- "Since alternative [microfoundational] programs are not addressed here, I will simply use the word “microfoundations” instead of “Lucasian microfoundations” or “representative agent microfoundations”."
- "In 1979, Stephen Hawking became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, one of Britain’s most distinguished chairs, and one formerly held by Isaac Newton."
- "He was looking down at our seven-pound lump of innocence, his mind unblemished by Lucasian mythology. "Can you believe he doesn't know about Star Wars yet?""
- "In the Lucasian spectacle of carefully programmed digitalized effects, as little as possible is left to chance, to the contingencies of real life, and to the vagaries and verities of the recorded image."
- "In this, I have probably devoted too much attention to the economists whom I label Lucasians […]"