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Fortune   /fˈɔrtʃən/  /fˈɔrtʃun/   Listen
noun
Fortune  n.  
1.
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. "'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit." "O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle."
2.
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. "You, who men's fortunes in their faces read."
3.
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. "Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give." "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." "His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune."
4.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
Synonyms: Chance; accident; luck; fate.
Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it.
Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage.
Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another.
Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another.


verb
Fortune  v. t.  
1.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. (Obs.)
2.
To provide with a fortune.
3.
To presage; to tell the fortune of. (Obs.)


Fortune  v. i.  To fall out; to happen. "It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning."





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"Fortune" Quotes from Famous Books



... a thorough Detestation of aged Avarice. The Petulancy of a peevish old Fellow, who loves and hates he knows not why, is very excellently performed by the Ingenious Mr. William Penkethman in the Fop's Fortune;[5] where, in the Character of Don Cholerick Snap Shorto de Testy, he answers no Questions but to those whom he likes, and wants no account of any thing from those he approves. Mr. Penkethman is also Master of as ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... interest which related to them, although I never made with him an agreement in form, I always found in him great exactness and probity. He is also the only person of his profession who frankly confessed to me he gained largely by my means; and he frequently, when he offered me a part of his fortune, told me I was the author of it all. Not finding the means of exercising his gratitude immediately upon myself, he wished at least to give me proofs of it in the person of my governante, upon whom he settled an annuity ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... rural communities toward their benefactors. We congratulate the redoubtable Colonel on his removal from so pestilent a neighborhood to a city where his sterling qualities will find 'ample scope and verge enough,' and where those who suffer 'the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' will not lay them to the charge of one who can, with truthfulness, declare 'Thou canst ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... suit and hat than I in mine, though mine were new this fall. If you knew how I envy you that look you would be quite satisfied with your old clothes," said Martha, generously. "And as for the husband you are getting—well—I suppose you know you're in the greatest sort of good fortune. All the way down here I've been watching him—Jim says I haven't done anything else—and I certainly never saw a man who seemed so always to know how and when to do the right thing. If ever there was a gentleman, born and bred, Dr. Leaver is certainly ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond
... 'It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.' We then talked of marrying women of fortune; and I mentioned a common remark, that a man may be, upon the whole, richer by marrying a woman with a very small portion, because a woman of fortune will be proportionally expensive; whereas a woman who brings none will be very moderate in expenses. ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell


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