From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɔːt͡ʃuːn/
• (America) IPA: /ˈfoɹt͡ʃun/, /-t͡ʃən/

fortune

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.

   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, “My Fate”, in The Mistress:

     you, who men's fortunes in their faces read

2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC ↗, [Act 2, scene 3] ↗:

     'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

5. Good luck.

   fame and fortune

   Fortune favors the brave.

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

6. 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.

7. A large amount of money.

   That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?

• (the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner) hap, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (one's wealth) riches; see also Thesaurus:wealth

• (antonym(s) of “good luck”): doom, fate, misfortune

• fortuitous
• fortuity

• French: destin
• German: Schicksal, Glück
• Italian: sorte, destino, fortuna
• Portuguese: destino, fortuna, sina
• Russian: судьба́
• Spanish: fortuna

• German: Glück
• Portuguese: chance
• Russian: возмо́жность
• Spanish: fortuna

• French: bonne chance
• German: Glück
• Italian: fortuna
• Portuguese: fortuna, fortúnio, sorte
• Russian: уда́ча
• Spanish: fortuna

• French: fortune
• German: Vermögen
• Italian: fortuna, dote
• Portuguese: fortuna
• Russian: бога́тство
• Spanish: fortuna

• French: pactole, magot

fortune (fortunes, present participle fortuning; simple past and past participle fortuned)

1. (transitive)
   1. To provide (someone) with a fortune.
   2. To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place. [14th]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC ↗, The Gospell off S. Mathew viij:[33], folios x, verso – xi, recto ↗:

     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.

   • 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Tale of Nu̇r al-Din Ali & His Son Badr al-Din Hasan”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC ↗, page 195 ↗:

     It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]

The name of the town in Newfoundland is derived from Portuguese fortuna.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃuːn/
• (America) IPA: /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃən/

1. Surname.
2. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
3. An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas.

• East Fortune