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/fˈɔrtʃən/ /fˈɔrtʃun/ Listen

Fortune

noun

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck. "We ran into each other by pure chance"

A large amount of wealth or prosperity.

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome. Synonym: luck. "They say luck is a lady" , "It was as if fortune guided his hand"

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion. "Deserved a better fate" , "Has a happy lot" , "The luck of the Irish" , "A victim of circumstances" , "Success that was her portion"

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"Fortune" Quotes from Famous Books

... the character everybody gives it, that you never meet anybody else there. I suppose Coventry and Jericho have something in common with Bath. I wonder if outcasts can be identified in either. Nothing distinguishes them in Bath from the favourites of Fortune. ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... undercurrent was a dismal foreboding as to the fate of the priceless quadruped; the fate of an Englishman seemingly being of small account when compared to that of the snarling, unpleasant brute who represented the native's entire fortune—at least so he said. "Yes, the nobleman had hired the camel as he so often did, and being acquainted with the ways of the animal had gone alone as he always did. No! upon the beard of his grandfather he had no idea in which ...

— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

... in unproductive mining work, or was fleeced out of in the towns. Then joyfully he turned back to his beloved mountains and the life of his slow deep delight and his pecking away before the open doors of fortune. By and by he would build himself a little cabin down in the lower pine mountains, where he would grow a white beard, putter with occult wilderness crafts, and smoke long contemplative hours in the sun before his door. For tourists he would braid rawhide reins and quirts, or make buckskin. ...

— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White

... not deprive their more obedient children of their rights to benefit the perverse Gustav. They gave him sufficient to start him in business, with the understanding that he would emigrate to America, their idea being that a German gentleman with a little capital could not fail to make a fortune among the comparatively illiterate Columbians. To New York accordingly we came, and Gustav labored assiduously to establish a business as importer of German manufactures; he soon found, however, that men who did not know Horace from Euripides could ...

— The Mysteries of Montreal - Being Recollections of a Female Physician • Charlotte Fuhrer

... gallows glorious like the Cross'; and he left Dr. Howe and took the train for Niagara Falls. There, sitting alone beside the mighty rush of water, he solemnly consecrated his remaining life, his fortune, and all that was most dear, to the cause in whose service John ...

— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

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