Meaning of 'fortune'

Meaning of 'fortune' (Webster Dictionary)

1. Fortune

[ n.]

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
- To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
- To provide with a fortune.
- To presage; to tell the fortune of.

2. Fortune

[ v. i.]

- To fall out; to happen.

Meaning of 'fortune' (Princeton's WordNet)

1. fortune

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

Example in sentence:

bad luck caused his downfall;
we ran into each other by pure chance

Meaning (2):
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

Example in sentence:

it was as if fortune guided his hand;
it was my good luck to be there;
they say luck is a lady

Meaning (3):
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

Example in sentence:

a victim of circumstances;
deserved a better fate;
has a happy lot;
success that was her portion;
the luck of the Irish;
whatever my fortune may be

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