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 Definitions of Fortune  [ˈfɔr tʃən]  

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Definition of 'Fortune' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) fortune
position in life as determined by wealth:
to make one's fortune.

2.  fortune
wealth; riches:
lost a fortune.

3.  fortune
an ample stock of material possessions:
inherited a fortune.

4.  fortune
chance; luck:
had the bad fortune to go bankrupt.

5.  fortune
fortunes, varied occurrences that happen or are to happen to a person in life.

6.  fortune
fate; destiny:
to tell someone's fortune.

7.  fortune
(cap.) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life.

8. (v.t.) fortune
Archaic. to endow with a fortune.

9. (v.i.) fortune
Archaic. to chance; happen.

Etymology:  (1250–1300; ME < OF < L fortūna chance, luck, fortune)

Definition of 'Fortune' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) luck, fortune, chance, hazard
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
"bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"

2. (noun) fortune
a large amount of wealth or prosperity

3. (noun) luck, fortune
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
"it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"

4. (noun) fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
"whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"


Definition of 'Fortune' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) fortune
a lot of money
I paid a fortune for this jacket.; He made a fortune from his IT businesses.

2.  fortune
make a fortune
good luck and wealth
fame and fortune

3.  fortune
the good or bad luck sb has in life
The day she was spotted by a movie producer her fortunes changed.

4.  fortune
tell sb's fortune
to predict what will happen to sb in the future


Definition of 'Fortune' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Fortune
the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life

2. (noun) Fortune
that which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune

3. (noun) Fortune
that which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort

4. (noun) Fortune
wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune

5. (noun) Fortune
to make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to

6. (noun) Fortune
to provide with a fortune

7. (noun) Fortune
to presage; to tell the fortune of

8. (verb) Fortune
to fall out; to happen


Translation of 'Fortune' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: whatever happens by chance or (good or bad) luck
whatever fortune may bring.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: voorspoed Arabic flag Arabic: حَظ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: случайност
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sorte Czech flag Czech: osud, náhoda German flag German: das Glück, das Schicksal
Danish flag Danish: held Greek flag Greek: τύχη Spanish flag Spanish: fortuna, suerte
Estonian flag Estonian: saatus Farsi flag Farsi: اقبال Finnish flag Finnish: onni
French flag French: hasard Hebrew flag Hebrew: גוֹרָל Hindi flag Hindi: सौभाग्य
Croatian flag Croatian: sreća Hungarian flag Hungarian: szerencse Indonesian flag Indonesian: nasib
Icelandic flag Icelandic: gæfa, heppni Italian flag Italian: fortuna, sorte, caso Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean:  Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: laimė, fortūna Latvian flag Latvian: laime; veiksme
Malay flag Malay: nasib Dutch flag Dutch: lot Norwegian flag Norwegian: skjebne, hell, lykke
Polish flag Polish: los Persian flag Persian: اقبال Pashto flag Pashto: بخت، مرغ، نيك بخت، قسمت،
Portuguese flag Portuguese: sorte Romanian flag Romanian: întâmplare Russian flag Russian: фортуна
Slovak flag Slovak: osud, náhoda Slovenian flag Slovenian: usoda Serbian flag Serbian: sudbina
Swedish flag Swedish: öde Thai flag Thai: โชคชะตา Turkish flag Turkish: şans, talih
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 運氣 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: доля Urdu flag Urdu: قسمت
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: vận may, rủi) Chinese flag Chinese: 运气

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