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for⋅tune

[fawr-chuh

noun, verb, -tuned, -tun⋅ing.

–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.	fortunes. 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.	Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.

–verb (used with object)

10.	Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.

–verb (used without object)

11.	Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.

—Idiom

12.	tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < OF < L fortūna chance, luck, fortune, deriv. of fort- (s. of fors) chance

Related forms:

for⋅tune⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
4. fate, destiny, providence; kismet, karma. 7. Moira; Lady Luck.

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for·tune (fôr'chən)

1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck: He decided to go home for the holidays, and his fortune turned for the worse.
2. fortunes The turns of luck in the course of one's life.
3. Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck: No matter what they tried, it ended in fortune.
4. A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth: She pursued her fortune in another country.
5. Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.
6. A large sum of money: spent a fortune on the new car.
7. Fate; destiny: told my fortune with tarot cards.
8. A foretelling of one's destiny.
1. A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth: She pursued her fortune in another country.
2. Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.
3. A large sum of money: spent a fortune on the new car.
4. Fate; destiny: told my fortune with tarot cards.
5. A foretelling of one's destiny.
often Fortune A hypothetical, often personified force or power that favorably or unfavorably governs the events of one's life: We believe that Fortune is on our side.
1. Fate; destiny: told my fortune with tarot cards.
2. A foretelling of one's destiny.

v. for·tuned, for·tun·ing, for·tunes

v. tr.

v. intr. Archaic
To occur by chance; happen.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fortūna; see bher-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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