Dictionary Definition
fortune
Noun
1 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" [syn:
luck, chance, hazard]
2 a large amount of wealth or prosperity
3 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"
[syn: luck]
4 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" [syn: destiny,
fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin fortuna meaning "fate" or "luck". In its plural form fortunae, it meant "possessions" which also gave fortune the meaning of "riches".Pronunciation
Noun
- Destiny or fate.
- A chance.
- Good luck.
- Lots of riches.
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
destiny or fate
a chance
good luck
lots of riches
- German: Vermögen
- Italian: fortuna , dote
- Japanese: 富 (tomi)
- Swedish: förmögenhet
Verb
- In the context of "obsolete|intransitive": To happen, take place.
- 1885: It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)
Italian
Noun
fortune- Plural of fortuna
Extensive Definition
Fortune may refer to:
- Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
- Fortune and Destiny (Gad (deity) and Meni), gods referred to in Bible verse |Isaiah|65:11
- Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
- Fortune
(magazine), America's second longest-running business magazine
- Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000, their list of the largest public American companies
- Prophecy, the
prediction of future events
- fortune (Unix), a simple program that displays a random message from a database of quotations
- Fortune cookie, a delicate, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or vague prophecy
- Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck (cf. the Greek Tyche)
- Fortune (ship), the second ship to bring settlers to Plymouth Colony
- Fortune, Newfoundland, small community in Newfoundland
- Fortune (Marikina), one of sixteen barangays in Marikina City
- A character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway, a 2007 television programme screened on ITV1 in the United Kingdom
- Fortune Records, an independent record label located in Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995
- Toyota Fortuner, an SUV
- Dion Fortune, born Violet Mary Firth, a British occultist and author
- John Fortune, a British comedian best known for his work on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune
- Quinton Fortune, a South African football player
- Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India
- Scott Fortune, a former member of the United States men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- "Fortune" (song), a song by Great Big Sea on their album Sea of No Cares
- "Fortune" (single), a song by Nami Tamaki
- Fortune (band), a short-lived but influential 80s AOR band
The Fortune may refer to:
- The Fortune, a 1975 film starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing
- Fortune Playhouse, historic theatre in London
- Fortune Theatre, a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden
- Fortune Theatre (New Zealand), the world's southernmost professional theatre company
fortune in German: Fortune
fortune in Spanish: Fortune
fortune in French: Fortune
fortune in Japanese: フォーチュン
fortune in Low German: Fortune
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Clio,
Friday, Friday the
thirteenth, Muse of history, accidentality, actuarial
calculation, adventitiousness,
adventures, affluence, annals, appointed lot, assets, astral influences,
astrology, autobiography, beggared, biographical sketch,
biography, blessing, bomb, boodle, book of fate, bottomless
purse, break, bulging
purse, bundle, calculated
risk, case history, casualness, chance, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, circumstances, confessions, constellation, cup, curriculum vitae, destination, destiny, destitute, diary, dies funestis, doom, easy circumstances, embarras
de richesses, end, estate, expectations, experiences, fatality, fate, felicity, flier, flukiness, foredoom, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortunateness, fortuneless, fortunes, future, gamble, gold, good fortune, good luck,
hagiography,
hagiology, handsome
fortune, hap, happenstance, happy chance,
happy fortune, hazard,
heedless hap, high income, high tax bracket, historiography, history, holdings, how they fall, ides
of March, impecunious, impoverished, independence, indeterminacy, indeterminateness,
indigent, inevitability, journal, karma, kismet, law of averages, legend, life, life and letters, life story,
lot, luck, luckiness, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, martyrology, material
wealth, means, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, mint, moira, money, money to burn, moneybags, necrology, needy, obituary, opportunity, opulence, opulency, packet, pelf, penurious, photobiography, pile, planets, play, plunge, portion, position, possessions, pot, poverty-stricken, pretty penny,
principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness,
profile, property, prosperity, prosperousness, random
sample, record, resources, resume, riches, richness, risk, roll, run of luck, serendipity, six-figure
income, smiles of fortune, speculation, stars, statistical probability,
story, substance, the breaks, theory
of history, theory of probability, tidy sum, treasure, uncertainty, uncertainty
principle, unlucky day, unprosperous, upper
bracket, venture,
wad, wealth, wealthiness, weird, whatever comes, wheel of
fortune, will of Heaven, worth