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