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fortune
[ fawr-chuhn ]
noun
- position in life as determined by wealth:
It's not easy to make one's fortune from humble beginnings.
- wealth or riches:
He lost a small fortune in bad investments.
- great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like:
Those gems are worth a fortune.
- chance; luck:
They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- fortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in their life:
Her charitable spirit stayed with her even as her fortunes changed with marriage.
- fate; lot; destiny:
Whatever my fortune may be, my faith will guide me.
- Fortune. chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life:
Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.
Synonyms: ,
- good luck; success; prosperity:
The family was blessed by fortune.
- Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.
verb (used with object)
- Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
verb (used without object)
- Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.
fortune
/ 藞蹿蓴藧迟蕛蓹苍 /
noun
- an amount of wealth or material prosperity, esp, when unqualified, a great amount
- small fortunea large sum of money
- a power or force, often personalized, regarded as being responsible for human affairs; chance
- luck, esp when favourable
- often plural a person's lot or destiny
verb
- archaic.
- tr to endow with great wealth
- intr to happen by chance
Derived Forms
- 藞蹿辞谤迟耻苍别濒别蝉蝉, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蹿辞谤顎僼耻苍别路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fortune1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fortune1
Idioms and Phrases
- tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in their own life; foretell.
More idioms and phrases containing fortune
see make a fortune .Example Sentences
It is Labour's good fortune that it is defending fewer than 300 seats in the local council elections.
This year, the film鈥檚 fortunes have changed on the festival circuit, winning jury awards at Cinequest, the Phoenix Film Festival and the Florida Film Festival.
Spurs are 16th in the Premier League table after a dismal domestic campaign and pressure is mounting on Postecoglou despite their contrasting fortunes in Europe.
A basketball program can flip from perennial losers to winners more easily than football because it can take only a few standout players to change fortunes.
Trump, meanwhile, has claimed without evidence that Democrats are "paying a fortune" to disrupt town halls.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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