fortune
fortune has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.
Definitions
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- n.. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
- n.. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
- n.. To provide with a fortune.
- n.. To presage; to tell the fortune of.
- v. i.. To fall out; to happen.
- n.. 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"
- n.. 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"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
- n.. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
- n.. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"