fortune

Noun

fortune (countable and uncountable, plural fortunes)

1. Destiny, especially favorable.
   • She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
   • you, who men's fortunes in their faces read1647, Abraham Cowley, “My Fate”, in The Mistress

   Synonyms:

   doom, fate, chance, destin, destiny, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, lot

2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
   • 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...

   Synonyms:

   hap, luck, adventure, accident, casualty, chance, chance-medley, hazard, joss, serendipity

5. Good luck.
   • fame and fortune
   • Fortune favors the brave.

   Synonyms:

   fortuity, felicity, fortuitousness, good cess, good fortune, good luck, happiness, luck

   Antonyms:

   doom, fate, misfortune

6. One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
   • He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
   • My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.

   Synonyms:

   riches, abundance, affluence, cheese, ease, substance, Mammon, opulence, plenty, richdom

7. A large amount of money.
   • That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?
   • Why spend a small fortune on Puma when you could buy Numa, Tuna or Pigg? And why buy Adidas when you can buy Adidos or Avivas? Nike, when there's Nire or Hike? Calvin Klein, when clearly, Calvim Klain or Cavern Kernel are just as good? But remember, after a good workout, be sure to clean up with...2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:02:53 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty...

Verb

fortune (third-person singular simple present fortunes, present participle fortuning, simple past and past participle fortuned)

1. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a fortune.
2. (transitive) To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
   • Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Mathew viij:[33], folios x, verso – xi, recto
   • It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Tale of Nu̇r al-Din Ali & His Son Badr al-Din Hasan”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The...

Proper noun capitalized: Fortune

UK/ˈfɔː.t͡ʃuːn/US/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃən/

Fortune

1. A surname.
2. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States.