Pronunciation Noun
fortune
- 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, The Mistress (“My Fate”):
- 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.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act 2, Scene 3:
- 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act 2, Scene 3:
- Good luck.
- Fortune favors the brave.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3:
- 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
- (good luck) doom, misfortune
- French: destin
- German: Schicksal, Glück
- Italian: sorte, destino, fortuna
- Portuguese: destino, fortuna, sina
- Russian: судьба́
- Spanish: fortuna
- French: bonne chance
- German: Glück
- Italian: fortuna
- Portuguese: fortuna, fortúnio, sorte
- Russian: уда́ча
- Spanish: fortuna
fortune (fortunes, present participle fortuning; past and past participle fortuned)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place. [14th-19th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:
- Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:
- To provide with a fortune.
- To presage; to tell the fortune of.
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