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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck: He decided to go home for the holidays, and his fortune turned for the worse.
  2. n. The turns of luck in the course of one's life.
  3. n. Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck: No matter what they tried, it ended in fortune.
  4. n. A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth: She pursued her fortune in another country.
  5. n. Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.
  6. n. A large sum of money: spent a fortune on the new car.
  7. n. A hypothetical, often personified force or power that favorably or unfavorably governs the events of one's life: We believe that Fortune is on our side.
  8. n. Fate; destiny: told my fortune with tarot cards.
  9. n. A foretelling of one's destiny.
  10. v. Archaic To endow with wealth.
  11. v. Obsolete To ascribe or give good or bad fortune to.
  12. v. Archaic To occur by chance; happen.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Chance; hap; luck; fate.
  2. n. Chance personified; the events or circumstances of life antecedent to some result attributed to their working, more or less consciously personified and regarded as a divinity which metes out happiness and unhappiness, and distributes arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life. When represented as an actual goddess (Latin Fortuna), the usual attribute of Fortune is a wheel, in token of instability.
  3. n. That which falls to one as his portion in life or in any particular proceeding; the course of events as affecting condition or state; circumstances; lot: often in the plural: as, good or bad fortune; to share one's fortunes.
  4. n. Specifically, good luck; prosperity; success.
  5. n. Estate; possessions; especially, when used absolutely, large estate; wealth: as, he married a lady of fortune.
  6. n. A person of wealth; especially, a marriageable heir or heiress.
  7. n. In astrology, one of the fortunate planets: namely, Jupiter, Venus, the sun, the moon, and Mercury.
  8. To determine the fate or chance of; fix or control the lot or fortune of; dispose of.
  9. To foretell the fortune or lot of; presage.
  10. To endow with wealth or fortune.
  11. To befall; fall out; happen; chance; come to pass casually.
  12. To come by chance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Destiny or fate.
  2. n. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
  3. n. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
  4. n. A chance.
  5. n. Good luck.
  6. n. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
  7. n. A large amount of money.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.
  2. n. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny.
  3. 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.
  4. n. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches.
  5. v. obsolete To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
  6. v. To provide with a fortune.
  7. v. obsolete To presage; to tell the fortune of.
  8. v. To fall out; to happen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
  2. n. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
  3. n. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
  4. n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

Etymologies

  1. From Latin fortuna ("fate, luck"). The plural form fortunae meant  ("possessions"), which also gave fortune the meaning of  ("riches"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fortūna. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. accident
  2. luck
  1. chance
  2. fate
  1. hap
  2. destiny
  1. success
  2. wealth
  1. riches
  2. presage
  1. happen

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. misfortune

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. treasure
  1. hoarded wealth

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. wealth
  2. success
  3. happiness
  4. fate
  5. strength
  6. circumstance
  1. profit
  2. fame
  3. health
  4. estate
  5. honor
  6. courage
  1. advantage
  2. beer
  3. guerre
  4. verrons
  5. while
  6. usage
  1. wine
  2. boy
  3. deal
  4. baiser
  5. piece
  6. bouche
  1. nommer
  2. hat
  3. Writings
  4. Dürer
  5. mark
  6. gods
  1. economy
  2. habits
  3. translation

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. misfortune

reverse dictionary (230)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. misfortune
  2. luckiness
  3. prosperity
  4. successfulness
  5. mischance
  6. Fortuna
  7. luck
  8. fortine
  9. fortune-tell
  10. fortyne
  11. envy
  12. unfortunate
  13. to turn the tables
  14. catastrophe
  15. reverse
  16. tyche
  17. fatiloquist
  18. experience
  19. estate
  20. luckily
  21. luckless
  22. lucky
  23. lot
  24. come
  25. ill-fated
  26. set
  27. cunningman
  28. Gypsy
  29. hap
  30. happily
  31. happiness
  32. happy
  33. horoscope
  34. lansquenet
  35. chirosophist
  36. godsend
  37. teen
  38. unfortunately
  39. unfortunateness
  40. unportioned
  41. ure
  42. wanspeed
  43. widow-hunter
  44. win-bread
  45. to make the best of
  46. bunce
  1. mascot
  2. minute-jack
  3. prosperously
  4. schemist
  5. seel
  6. self-gratulation
  7. spaeman
  8. spaer
  9. spaewife
  10. windfall
  11. jihad
  12. ill-wisher
  13. aristocracy
  14. joy
  15. amass
  16. befriend
  17. betide
  18. bonchief
  19. chartomancy
  20. chop
  21. cunning-woman
  22. dowerless
  23. enfortune
  24. fortunal
  25. fortunately
  26. fortuned
  27. fortune hunter
  28. fortune-hunting
  29. fortuneless
  30. fortunize
  31. fortunous
  32. forty-niner
  33. infausting
  34. infortune
  35. Lakshmi
  36. lotted
  37. lot-teller
  38. congratulate
  39. congratulation
  40. Getty
  41. Frick
  42. Nobel
  43. Luce
  44. felicitous
  45. parlay
  46. Carnegie
  1. Top-Sider
  2. Rockefeller
  3. fortunate
  4. rejoice
  5. Klondike
  6. Guggenheim
  7. kismet
  8. Godspeed
  9. stand
  10. self-congratulation
  11. roll
  12. unhappy
  13. ups and downs
  14. participate
  15. toboggan
  16. adventurer
  17. ascendant
  18. on the cards
  19. chance
  20. charm
  21. constellation
  22. creature
  23. draw
  24. envious
  25. fair
  26. fare
  27. fate
  28. fortune
  29. grace
  30. livetide
  31. tarot
  32. tarot card
  33. unlucky
  34. vicissitude
  35. hammerlock
  36. downgrade
  37. crystal ball
  38. lay
  39. way
  40. throw
  41. flush
  42. laugh
  43. weather
  44. pile
  45. ship
  46. peripeteia
  1. peripetia
  2. peripety
  3. Rhodes
  4. rosy
  5. wish
  6. wish well
  7. all
  8. Vanderbilt
  9. answer
  10. fortune cookie
  11. byword
  12. cast
  13. checkered
  14. clap
  15. climacteric
  16. felicity
  17. venture
  18. gain
  19. high
  20. fist
  21. smile
  22. weird
  23. pretty
  24. great
  25. latch
  26. lightning
  27. thanks
  28. reversal
  29. welfare
  30. fortuitously
  31. gold rush
  32. henry clay frick
  33. ill
  34. ill-omened
  35. ill-starred
  36. john d. rockefeller
  37. john davison rockefeller
  38. john jacob astor
  39. low status
  40. lowliness
  41. lowness
  42. manna from heaven
  43. nabob
  44. ominous
  45. adversity
  46. as luck would have it
  1. Astor
  2. blessed
  3. bonanza
  4. boom
  5. cecil j. rhodes
  6. cecil john rhodes
  7. cecil rhodes
  8. congratulatory
  9. doomed
  10. fairy godmother
  11. felicitation
  12. gratulatory
  13. gravy
  14. inauspicious
  15. metopomancy
  16. mistide
  17. occultism
  18. plum
  19. portion
  20. sibyl
  21. speed
  22. star
  23. starmonger
  24. starred
  25. stoic
  26. to strike a lead
  27. strike
  28. sworn brothers
  29. synastry
  30. thedom
  31. to turn the die
  32. victim
  33. vingt et un
  34. accident
  35. adventure
  36. affluence
  37. agathodæmon
  38. auspice
  39. best
  40. birth
  41. buffet
  42. capriciousness
  43. captivity
  44. Chaldean
  45. cheer
  46. circumstance

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  • PossibleUnderscore “It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.�?
    - Titus Livius Jul 26, 2009

  • brtom Must I confess that Charles—that libertine, that extravagant, that bankrupt in fortune and reputation—that he it is for whom I am thus anxious and malicious, and to gain whom I would sacrifice every thing?
    Sheridan, School for Scandal Jan 5, 2008

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