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.