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fortune
[ fawr-chuhn ]
noun
- position in life as determined by wealth:
It's not easy to make one's fortune from humble beginnings.
- wealth or riches:
He lost a small fortune in bad investments.
- great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like:
Those gems are worth a fortune.
- chance; luck:
They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.
Synonyms: karma, kismet, providence, destiny, fate
- fortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in their life:
Her charitable spirit stayed with her even as her fortunes changed with marriage.
- fate; lot; destiny:
Whatever my fortune may be, my faith will guide me.
- Fortune. 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:
The family was blessed by fortune.
- Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.
verb (used with object)
- Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
verb (used without object)
- Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.
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
- ˈfortuneless, adjective
Other Words From
- fortune·less adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of fortune1
Word History and Origins
Origin of fortune1
Idioms and Phrases
- tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in their own life; foretell.
More idioms and phrases containing fortune
see make a fortune .Example Sentences
Burnett and Trump’s television fortunes became intertwined and their friendship grew.
But what exactly is it — and why do choirs keep returning to this “circle of fortune”?
Gelbaum, a mathematician who had made a fortune managing hedge funds, became his financial angel.
McCullum was appointed as head coach of the Test side in 2022 and transformed the team's fortunes alongside captain Ben Stokes, instilling a positive and fearless brand of cricket.
The change has done little for the side's fortunes in league table terms - United have lost nine of their 26 games under him and are 36 points behind league leaders and rivals Liverpool.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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