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for·tune (fôr′c̸hən)
noun
- the entity or power believed by some to bring good or bad luck to people; luck; chance; fate: often personified
- what happens or is going to happen to one; one's lot, good or bad, esp. one's future lot
- good luck; success; prosperity
- a large quantity of money or possessions; wealth; riches
Etymology: ME < OFr < L fortuna, chance, fate, fortune < fors, chance: see fortuitous
intransitive verb
Related Forms:
- fortuneless for′·tune·less adjective
a small fortune
tell someone's fortune
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
fortune
n.
Chance
Great riches
wealth, prosperity, possessions, estate; see wealth 2.A large sum of money
a small fortune, tidy sum, mint, pretty penny*, bundle*, pile*, wad*, big bucks*, megabucks*, king's ransom*, packet*, heap*, loads*.
tell one's fortune
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Possessives
- uncle: As they both stand to share their uncle's fortune, Tony wonders if the bottle's poisoned.
Converse of object
- amass: During the course of his life he amassed a very large fortune.
Adjective modifier
- mixed: Bristol's football teams enjoyed mixed fortunes over the weekend.
Modifies a noun
- teller: Meanwhile their mother tries to make sense of it all through a fortune teller.
Noun used with modifier
- Gypsy: Estrella, ( O'Hara ), a gypsy fortune teller at a carnival, transforms her clients into zombies by throwing acid on them.
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Como te dec|¤a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u¤ blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m |¤ no existir|¤a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|¤a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
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