fortune
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.
Inflected forms:
form: fortunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fortunes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fortuning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fortuned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fortuned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Destiny, especially favorable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve.
gloss: A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
gloss: Good luck.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: fame and fortune
Fortune favors the brave.
There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
gloss: One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.
Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
gloss: A large amount of money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?
Why spend a small fortune on Puma when you could buy Numa, Tuna or Pigg? And why buy Adidas when you can buy Adidos or Avivas? Nike, when there's Nire or Hike? Calvin Klein, when clearly, Calvim Klain or Cavern Kernel are just as good? But remember, after a good workout, be sure to clean up with some Okay shampoo.
gloss: To provide (someone) with a fortune.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To happen, to take place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.
It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]
Related words: fortuitous
fortuity
Derived words: befortune
bracelets of fortune
every man is the architect of his own fortune
fortunate
fortune cookie
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fortune favors the daring
fortune favours the daring
fortune-hunter
fortune hunter
fortune hunting
fortuneless
fortune-seeker
fortune seeker
fortune stick
fortune-tell
fortune-teller
fortune-telling
fortune telling
fortunize
good fortune
hostage to fortune
ill-fortune
make a fortune
megafortune
seek one's fortune
small fortune
soldier of fortune
stroke of fortune
Temple Fortune
unfortunate
unfortuned
wanfortune
wheel of fortune
wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune
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