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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024for•tune /ˈfɔrtʃən/USA pronunciation n. - wealth;
riches:[countable]inherited a fortune. - chance;
luck:[uncountable]They had the bad fortune to go bankrupt. - fortunes, [plural] varied occurrences of a person's life:a reversal of fortunes.
- [countable] fate;
destiny;
future.
See -fortun-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024for•tune (fôr′chən),USA pronunciation n., v., -tuned, -tun•ing. n. - 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. - Mythology(cap.) 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. - Idioms tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life;
foretell.
v.t. - [Archaic.]to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
v.i. - [Archaic.]to chance or happen;
come by chance.
- Latin fortūna chance, luck, fortune, derivative of fort- (stem of fors) chance
- Old French
- Middle English 1250–1300
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged fate, destiny, providence; kismet, karma.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Moira; Lady Luck.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fortune /ˈfɔːtʃən/ n - an amount of wealth or material prosperity, esp, when unqualified, a great amount
- small fortune ⇒ a 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
vb - archaic (intransitive) to happen by chance
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French, from Latin fortūna, from fors chance |