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Fortune   /fˈɔrtʃən/  /fˈɔrtʃun/   Listen
noun
Fortune  n.  
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. "'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit." "O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle."
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. "You, who men's fortunes in their faces read."
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. "Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give." "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." "His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune."
4.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
Synonyms: Chance; accident; luck; fate.
Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it.
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.


verb
Fortune  v. t.  
1.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. (Obs.)
2.
To provide with a fortune.
3.
To presage; to tell the fortune of. (Obs.)


Fortune  v. i.  To fall out; to happen. "It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning."





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"Fortune" Quotes from Famous Books



... flourished in the 4th century B.C.; assisted in the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, and distributed among the citizens his large fortune which ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... head of Christ is God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord." That was inspiration. This was written by a poor, despised heathen: "In whatever house the husband is contented with the wife and the wife with the husband, in that house will fortune dwell. In the house where the woman is not honored, let the curse be pronounced. Where the wife is honored, there God is truly worshiped." I wish Jehovah had said something like that from Sinai. Is there anything as beautiful as this in the new testament: "Shall I tell you where nature is ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll
... ain't my way to blow my own trumpet, but I can say that the crowd that 'ere picture did draw was bigger than any that 'ad assembled about the bits o' bacon and ship-a-fire of all the other coves. 'Ad I been let alone, I should 'ave made my fortune, but the crowd was so big and the curiosity so great that it took the perlice all their time to keep the pavement from being blocked. It wasn't that the public didn't like it enough, it was that the public liked it too much, that was the reason ...
— Vain Fortune • George Moore
... approach'd when Fortune should decide The important enterprise, and give the bride; For now, the rivals round the world had sought, And each his number, well appointed, brought. The nations, far and near, contend in choice, And ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden
... noted the name and address of the rental agent on the card in the window, cut her visit with Sadie short, so afraid was she that she would be tempted to tell her friend of the good fortune that was going to overtake her. For the girl from Sunset Ranch knew just what she ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe


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