'Fortune' definitions:
Definition of 'fortune'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: luck, fortune, chance, hazard]
noun
A large amount of wealth or prosperity
noun
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" [syn: luck, fortune]
noun
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
Definition of 'Fortune'
From: GCIDE
- Fortune \For"tune\ (f[^o]r"t[-u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous.]
- 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. [1913 Webster]
- You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. [1913 Webster]
- Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
- Syn: Chance; accident; luck; fate. [1913 Webster]
- Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. --Crashaw.
- Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage.
- Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another.
- Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fortune'
From: GCIDE
- Fortune \For"tune\, v. t. [OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n.]
- 1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To provide with a fortune. --Richardson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fortune'
From: GCIDE
- Fortune \For"tune\, v. i. To fall out; to happen. [1913 Webster]
- It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fortune'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- adventures,
- affluence,
- annals,
- appointed lot,
- assets,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- autobiography,
- beggared,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- blessing,
- bomb,
- boodle,
- book of fate,
- bottomless purse,
- break,
- bulging purse,
- bundle,
- calculated risk,
- case history,
- casualness,
- chance,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- circumstances,
- Clio,
- confessions,
- constellation,
- cup,
- curriculum vitae,
- destination,
- destiny,
- destitute,
- diary,
- dies funestis,
- doom,
- easy circumstances,
- embarras de richesses,
- end,
- estate,
- expectations,
- experiences,
- fatality,
- fate,
- felicity,
- flier,
- flukiness,
- foredoom,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortunateness,
- fortuneless,
- fortunes,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- future,
- gamble,
- gold,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- handsome fortune,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- happy fortune,
- hazard,
- heedless hap,
- high income,
- high tax bracket,
- historiography,
- history,
- holdings,
- how they fall,
- ides of March,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- independence,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- indigent,
- inevitability,
- journal,
- karma,
- kismet,
- law of averages,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- lot,
- luck,
- luckiness,
- lucre,
- luxuriousness,
- mammon,
- martyrology,
- material wealth,
- means,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- mint,
- moira,
- money,
- money to burn,
- moneybags,
- Muse of history,
- necrology,
- needy,
- obituary,
- opportunity,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- packet,
- pelf,
- penurious,
- photobiography,
- pile,
- planets,
- play,
- plunge,
- portion,
- position,
- possessions,
- pot,
- poverty-stricken,
- pretty penny,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- profile,
- property,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- random sample,
- record,
- resources,
- resume,
- riches,
- richness,
- risk,
- roll,
- run of luck,
- serendipity,
- six-figure income,
- smiles of fortune,
- speculation,
- stars,
- statistical probability,
- story,
- substance,
- the breaks,
- theory of history,
- theory of probability,
- tidy sum,
- treasure,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- unlucky day,
- unprosperous,
- upper bracket,
- venture,
- wad,
- wealth,
- wealthiness,
- weird,
- whatever comes,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- worth