fortune

Plural: fortunes

Noun

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
• a large amount of wealth or prosperity
• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
  • "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • "whatever my fortune may be"
• Destiny, especially favorable.
• A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
• A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
• The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
• Good luck.
• One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
• A large amount of money.

Verb

Verb Forms: fortuned, fortuning, fortunes

• To endow with wealth or good luck.
• To provide (someone) with a fortune.
• To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
• To happen, to take place.

Examples

• fame and fortune
• Fortune favors the brave.
• He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
• Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars.
• My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.
• She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
• That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?
• The bonus squares often fortune a player with an unexpected high score.

Synonyms

chance, circumstances, destiny, fate, hazard, lot, luck, portion, Mammon, abundance, accident, adventure, affluence, casualty, chance-medley, cheese, destin, doom, ease, fatality, felicity, foredoom, foreordination, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, good fortune, good luck, hap, happiness, joss, kismet, luck of the Irish, opulence, orlay, plenty, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, richdom, riches, serendipity, wealth, weird, wyrd

Antonyms

doom, fate, misfortune

Related Words

fortuitous, fortuity