FORTUNE
\fˈɔːt͡ʃuːn], \fˈɔːtʃuːn], \f_ˈɔː_tʃ_uː_n]\
Definitions of FORTUNE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
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a large amount of wealth or prosperity
By Princeton University
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
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a large amount of wealth or prosperity
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
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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.
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Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
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To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
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To presage; to tell the fortune of.
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To fall out; to happen.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
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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.
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Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
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To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
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To presage; to tell the fortune of.
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To fall out; to happen.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make fortunate. Chaucer: to dispose of, fortunately or not. Shak.: to foretell the fortune or lot of; to presage. Dryden; Shak.
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To befall: to fall out: to happen: to come casually to pass. "They attempted to remonstrate, but were warned to beware, lest 'it might fortune to cost some their heads.' "-Hallam.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The good or evil that befalls man; chance; accident; wealth; estate; possessions; the portion of a man or woman; destiny; fate.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] Chance; accident; luck; fortuity; hap;—appointed lot in life; fate; destiny;—that which befalls one; event; good or ill success; especially, favourable issue;—estate; possessions; especially, large estate; great wealth.
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The power supposed to distribute the lots of life according to her own humour; the good or ill that befals man; the chance of life, means of living; event, success good or bad; estate, possessions; the portion of a man or woman.
By Thomas Sheridan
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