"fortune" Definition

Definitions for the word "fortune" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To provide with a fortune.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To fall out; to happen.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 a chance or luck in human affairs. B person''s destiny. 2 (in sing. Or pl.) Luck that befalls a person or enterprise. 3 good luck. 4 prosperity. 5 colloq. Great wealth. make a (or one''s) fortune become very rich. [latin fortuna]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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