Definition of fortune Fortune

/fɔˈɹʧʌn/ - [forchun] - for•tune

We found 33 definitions of fortune from 7 different sources.

What does fortune mean?

Noun Plural: fortunes
fortune - 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"
		destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
		condition the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
		luckiness, good fortune, good luck an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
		providence the guardianship and control exercised by a deity; "divine providence"
		ill luck, tough luck, misfortune, bad luck unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event
fortune - a large amount of wealth or prosperity
fortune - an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
		luck, chance, hazard
		phenomenon any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
		mischance, mishap, bad luck an instance of misfortune
fortune - an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
		luck
		phenomenon any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

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fortune (Noun)
Destiny or fate.
fortune (Noun)
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller .
fortune (Noun)
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie .
fortune (Noun)
A chance.
fortune (Noun)
Good luck.
fortune (Noun)
One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
fortune (Noun)
A large amount of money.

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.
fortune (n.)
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.
fortune (n.)
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.
fortune (n.)
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
fortune (n.)
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
fortune (n.)
To provide with a fortune.
fortune (n.)
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
fortune (v. i.)
To fall out; to happen.

fortune
Something positive that happens to someone by chance.
fortune
A large amount of possesions or money.
fortune
An outcome, condition or event that is predetermined by fate [the power that predetermines events].
fortune
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
fortune
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
fortune
The amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
fortune
Chance, personified; commonly imagined as a mythical creature distributing arbitrarily the outcomes in life to people.

fortune
for′tūn, n. whatever comes by lot or chance: luck: the arbitrary ordering of events: the lot that falls to one in life: success: wealth.—v.i. to befall.—v.t. to determine.—adj. For′tunāte, happening by good fortune: lucky: auspicious: felicitous.—adv. For′tunātely.—ns. For′tunāteness; For′tune-book, a book helpful in telling fortunes.—adj. For′tuned, supplied by fortune.—n. For′tune-hunt′er, a man who hunts for marriage with a woman of fortune.—adj. For′tuneless, without a fortune: luckless.—v.i. For′tune-tell, to reveal futurity: to tell one his fortune.—ns. For′tune-tell′er, one who pretends to foretell one's fortune; For′tune-tell′ing.—v.t. For′tunīse (Spens.), to make fortunate or happy. [Fr.,—L. fortuna.]