fortune

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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.

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

   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.

4. 4noun

   Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

5. 5noun

   To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

6. 6noun

   To provide with a fortune.

7. 7noun

   To presage; to tell the fortune of.

8. 8intransitive verb

   To fall out; to happen.

9. 9noun

   an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

   "bad luck caused his downfall"

   "we ran into each other by pure chance"

   Synonyms

   chancehazardluck
10. 10noun

    an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

    "it was my good luck to be there"

    "they say luck is a lady"

    Synonyms

    luck
11. 11noun

    a large amount of wealth or prosperity

12. 12noun

    your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

    "whatever my fortune may be"

    "deserved a better fate"

    Synonyms

    circumstancesdestinyfatelotluckportion