fortune

American  

[fawr-chuhn] / ˈfɔr tʃən /

noun

1. position in life as determined by wealth.

   It's not easy to make one's fortune from humble beginnings.

2. wealth or riches.

   He lost a small fortune in bad investments.

3. great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like.

   Those gems are worth a fortune.

4. chance; luck.

   They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.

   Synonyms:

   karma , kismet , providence , destiny , fate

5. fortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in their life.

   Her charitable spirit stayed with her even as her fortunes changed with marriage.

6. fate; lot; destiny.

   Whatever my fortune may be, my faith will guide me.

7. Fortune. chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life.

   Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.

   Synonyms:

   Lady Luck , Moira

8. good luck; success; prosperity.

   The family was blessed by fortune.

9. Archaic.  a wealthy woman; an heiress.

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verb (used with object)

fortuned, fortuning

1. Archaic.  to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.

verb (used without object)

fortuned, fortuning

1. Archaic.  to chance or happen; come by chance.

idioms

1. tell someone's fortune,  to profess to inform someone of future events in their own life; foretell.

fortune British  

/ ˈfɔːtʃən /

noun

1. an amount of wealth or material prosperity, esp, when unqualified, a great amount

2. a large sum of money

3. a power or force, often personalized, regarded as being responsible for human affairs; chance

4. luck, esp when favourable

5. (often plural) a person's lot or destiny

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verb

1. archaic

   1. (tr) to endow with great wealth

   2. (intr) to happen by chance

fortune More Idioms  

1. see make a fortune.

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Other Word Forms

• fortuneless adjective

Etymology

Origin of fortune

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fortūna “chance, luck, fortune,” derivative of fort- (stem of fors ) “chance”

Example Sentences

The new owners will get a clean slate to try and turn the fortunes of the club around.

From BBC

"I was in the wrong era," he says, considering the way modern fast bowlers are managed, or how he could have made a fortune as a T20 gun-for-hire.

From BBC

The upward revisions, both groups said, were partly the result of the fortune that tech companies are investing in AI this year.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, Farke, who has been criticised for a lack of adventure particularly around substitutions, was almost rewarded for a bold decision at the interval that almost reversed their fortunes.

From BBC

“We had our blueprint. We had our nest egg. We had our health. All that was left was to toast our good fortune and enjoy the ride,” Glenn says.

From The Wall Street Journal