position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune.
wealth or riches: to lose a small fortune in bad investments.
great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: to be worth a fortune.
chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.
fortunes.things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life.
fate; lot; destiny: whatever my fortune may be.
(initial capital letter) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.
good luck; success; prosperity: a family blessed by fortune.
Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.
verb (used with object),for·tuned,for·tun·ing.
Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
verb (used without object),for·tuned,for·tun·ing.
Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.
Idioms for fortune
tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell.
Origin of fortune
1250–1300; Middle English <Old French <Latin fortūna chance, luck, fortune, derivative of fort- (stem of fors) chance
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British Dictionary definitions for fortune
fortune
/ (ˈfɔːtʃən) /
noun
an amount of wealth or material prosperity, esp, when unqualified, a great amount
small fortunea large sum of money
a power or force, often personalized, regarded as being responsible for human affairs; chance
luck, esp when favourable
(often plural)a person's lot or destiny
verb
archaic
(tr)to endow with great wealth
(intr)to happen by chance
Derived forms of fortune
fortuneless, adjective
Word Origin for fortune
C13: from Old French, from Latin fortūna, from fors chance