fortunenoun
uk/ˈfɔː.tʃuːn/us/ˈfɔːr.tʃuːn/fortune noun (WEALTH)
B2 [ C ] a large amount of money, goods, property, etc.:
She inherited a fortune from her grandmother.
He lost a fortune gambling.
You can make a fortune out of junk if you call it antiques.
This dress cost a (small) fortune.
Any painting by Van Gogh is worth a fortune.
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- She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels.
- With a personal fortune of six million pounds, she certainly doesn't work out of necessity.
- She netted herself a fortune when she sold her company.
- They made a fortune through some sham property deal.
- She inherited a substantial fortune from her grandmother.
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Large amounts of money
- a king's ransom idiom
- a small fortune idiom
- arm
- big bucks
- bomb
- bundle
- cost, charge, etc. the earth idiom
- earth
- handsome
- king
- megabucks
- not to be sneezed at idiom
- pile
- pot
- small
- sneeze
- tidy
- treasure
- treasure trove
- wealth
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fortune noun (CHANCE)
B2 [ C or U ] chance and the way it affects your life:
He had the (good) fortune to train with some of the world's top athletes.
The family's fortunes changed overnight.
tell sb's fortune
to discover what will happen to someone in the future, for example by looking at the lines on their hands or using a special set of cards
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- She rejoiced in her good fortune.
- But for a cruel twist of fortune, he could now be running his own business.
- At the fair, there was a lady who told your fortune.
- The chairman, Tony Bramall, was responsible for the turnaround in the company's fortunes.
- His commitment to democracy and free markets has waxed and waned with his political fortunes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- luck into sth
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- randomized
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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Predicting things and intuition
Idiom(s)
fortune smiles on sb