fortune
see also: Fortune
Etymology
Fortune
Etymology
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see also: Fortune
Etymology
From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna.
Pronunciation Nounfortune
- 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
- A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
- A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
fortune (fortunes, present participle fortuning; simple past and past participle fortuned)
- (transitive)
- To provide (someone) with a fortune.
- To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
- (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, […]
Fortune
Etymology
The name of the town in Newfoundland is derived from Portuguese fortuna.
Pronunciation Proper noun- Surname.
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
- An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas.
- East Fortune
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