Fortune - (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.
Fortune - (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.
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.
Fortune - (n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a
gentleman of fortune.
Fortune - (n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
Fortune - (n.) To provide with a fortune.
Fortune - (n.) To presage; to tell the fortune of.
Fortune - (v. i.) To fall out; to happen.
Befortune - (v. t.) To befall.
Fortuneless - (a.) Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.
Infortune - (n.) Misfortune.
Infortuned - (a.) Unfortunate.
Misfortune - (n.) Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident;
disaster; mishap; mischance.
Misfortune - (v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry;
to fail.
Misfortuned - (a.) Unfortunate.
Fortune - 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]
Fortune-teller - n. Person who claims to foretell one's destiny. fortune-telling n.
Misfortune - n. 1 bad luck. 2 instance of this.
Soldier of fortune - n. Mercenary.
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