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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: , , , ,
- 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.
Synonyms: ,
- 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
/ ˈɔːʃə /
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
- ˈڴǰٳܲԱ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ڴǰtܲԱ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fortune1
51Թ 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
The agenda for the meeting was set: Hitler would assure this group of Germany's richest men that their fortunes would be preserved, or more likely multiplied, under Nazi rule.
Great fortunes were made here, but too few left charitable legacies.
In recent days the turnabout in Tesla’s fortunes has left Musk and his political supporters sounding ever more febrile.
He wasn’t an actor for fame or fortune, but to look at life from all of its different vantage points.
His legal woes clearly didn't harm his political fortunes though.
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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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