fortune

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Destiny, especially favorable.

   • She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
   • you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
   • […]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve.
2. 2

   A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.

3. 3

   A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a…

   A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.

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   1. 4

      The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner

      The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.

      • 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
   2. 5

      Good luck.

      • fame and fortune
      • Fortune favors the brave.
      • There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
   3. 6

      One's wealth

      One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.

      • He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
      • My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.
      • Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars.
   4. 7

      A large amount of money.

      • That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?
   5. 8

      To provide (someone) with a fortune.

   6. 9

      To tell the fortune of (someone)

      To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.

   7. 10

      To happen, to take place.

      • Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.
      • It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]
   8. 11

      A surname.

   9. 12

      A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

   10. 13

       An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States.

The neighborhood

• neighborfortuitous
• neighborfortuity