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noun
1.
position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune.
2.
wealth or riches: to lose a small fortune in bad investments.
3.
great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: to be worth a fortune.
4.
chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.
5.
EXPANDfortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life.
6.
fate; lot; destiny: whatever my fortune may be.
7.
(initial capital letter) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.
8.
good luck; success; prosperity: a family blessed by fortune.
9.
COLLAPSEArchaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.
verb (used with object)
10.
Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
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verb (used without object)
Idiom11.
Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.
12.
tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin fortūna chance, luck, fortune, derivative of fort- (stem of fors) chance
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin fortūna chance, luck, fortune, derivative of fort- (stem of fors) chance
Related forms
for·tune·less, adjective
Synonyms
4. fate, destiny, providence; kismet, karma. 7. Moira; Lady Luck.
4. fate, destiny, providence; kismet, karma. 7. Moira; Lady Luck.
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