Meaning

Destiny, especially favorable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Destiny, especially favorable.
2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
5. Good luck.
6. One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
7. A large amount of money.
8. To provide (someone) with a fortune.

Example Sentences

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.

'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

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.

He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.

Word Forms

• fortunes
• fortuning
• fortuned

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