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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



... 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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