fortune
IPA: fˈɔrtʃʌn
noun
- Destiny, especially favorable.
- A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
- A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
- Good luck.
- One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
- A large amount of money.
- A surname.
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States.
verb
- (transitive)
- To provide (someone) with a fortune.
- To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
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Examples of "fortune" in Sentences
- The prince inherited the fortune.
- Currently the Crocker Fortune is unclaimed.
- It is reputedly the birthplace of the fortune cookie.
- Kenneth Hale was a happy go lucky soldier of fortune.