fortune

Speech parts

1. fortune - Noun

2. fortune - Verb

3. Fortune - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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.

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.

Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

To provide with a fortune.

To presage; to tell the fortune of.

To fall out; to happen.

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Examples

bad luck caused his downfall Source: Internet

we ran into each other by pure chance Source: Internet

whatever my fortune may be Source: Internet

deserved a better fate Source: Internet

has a happy lot Source: Internet

the luck of the Irish Source: Internet

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