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fortunings

fortunings noun: fortunes; things happening by chance.

Noun

fortunings pl (plural only)

  1. (nonce-word, plural, plural-only) Fortunes; things happening by chance.
    • "Ah, peradventure my head being distraught by the manifold matters whereunto the confusions of these but late adventured haps and fortunings whereby not I alone nor you alone, but every each of us, meseemeth—"1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC
    • And doth he counsel not / With thee in any wise pertaining to / His ailings, or of matters looking toward / His future purposes or his intents / Regarding thine own future fortunings / And his desires and interests therein?1887, #James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles

Questions about fortunings

What does fortunings mean?
Fortunings means fortunes; things happening by chance.
What part of speech is fortunings?
Fortunings is a noun.

Words near fortunings in the dictionary

  1. fortuneteller
  2. fortunetellers
  3. fortunetelling
  4. Fortunian
  5. fortuning
  6. fortunings
  7. fortunise
  8. fortunised
  9. fortunises
  10. fortunising
  11. fortunize

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