Lucasian
/luːˈkeɪziən/adjective, noun
Lucasian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-C-A-S-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Lucasian mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
- 2
Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
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.
- 3
rareOf or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
noun
- 1
A follower of the theories of American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Lucasian?
- /luːˈkeɪziən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Lucasian
- Lucasians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Lucasian?
Lucasian appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lucasian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to Henry Lucas:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | lucasiano |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Lucasian come from?
From Lucas + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).