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seek one's fortune

seek one's fortune verb: to go to a particular place to augment one's wealth or to find success.

Verb

seek one's fortune (third-person singular simple present seeks one's fortune, present participle seeking one's fortune, simple past and past participle sought one's fortune)

  1. To go to a particular place to augment one's wealth or to find success.

Forms of seek one's fortune

third-person singular presentseeks one's fortune
present participleseeking one's fortune
past participlesought one's fortune
pastsought one's fortune

Questions about seek one's fortune

What does seek one's fortune mean?
Seek one's fortune means to go to a particular place to augment one's wealth or to find success.
What part of speech is seek one's fortune?
Seek one's fortune is a verb.
What is the past tense of seek one's fortune?
The past tense of seek one's fortune is sought one's fortune.

Words near seek one's fortune in the dictionary

  1. seeings
  2. seek
  3. seek a knot in a bulrush
  4. seek and ye shall find
  5. seek for
  6. seek one's fortune
  7. seek one's virtuous couch
  8. seek out
  9. seek time
  10. seek times
  11. seek'st

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