fortune

IPA: fˈɔrtʃʌn

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.

Examples of "fortune" in Sentences

"We are trying to make our fortune, or as the French more correctly express it, _Nous corrigous notre fortune_.
III. i.112 (465,2) So weary with disasters, tug'd with fortune] _Tug'd with fortune_ may be, _tug'd_ or _worried_ by fortune.
The lower house of parliament in Tajikistan has endorsed a bill to try to tackle what it describes as fortune-telling and witchcraft.
But, for the rest of us, trying to find detailed, in depth information on the net without paying a fortune is an exercise in frustration and exasperation.
What need is there to display the praises of industry, and to extol its advantages, in the acquisition of power and riches, or in raising what we call a fortune in the world?
"_Dix francs, et je ferai fortune -- dix francs, et je ferai fortune_ --" The old words seemed to set themselves to a tune in Madelon's head, chiming in with the croupier's perpetual "_Rouge gagne et la couleur_,"
Then, if she brought no fortune, and he had none, she ought not to have been _able to marry_: and, let me tell you, young man, a _small fortune_ would not put a servant-keeping wife upon an equality with one who required no such inmate.
And, therefore, the natural philosophy of Democritus and some others, who did not suppose a mind or reason in the frame of things, but attributed the form thereof able to maintain itself to infinite essays or proofs of Nature, which they term fortune, seemeth to me