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fortune
- 1) noun, an amount of wealth or material prosperity, esp, when unqualified, a great amount
- 2) noun, small fortune a large sum of money
- 3) noun, a power or force, often personalized, regarded as being responsible for human affairs; chance
- 4) noun, luck, esp when favourable
- 5) noun, a person's lot or destiny
- 6) verb, a) to endow with great wealth b) to happen by chance
Etymology
C13: from Old French, from Latin fortūna, from fors chance
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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success, life, wealth, serendipity, destiny, destiny, adventure, bomb, means, property, riches, resource, assets, pile (informal), possession, treasure, prosperity, mint, wad (U.S. Canad. slang), affluence, luck, accident, fluke (informal), hap (archaic), chance, fate, providence, kismet, fortuity, lot, experience, history, condition, means, circumstance, expectation, Brit. slang slang slang informal chiefly U.S. U.S. Canad. slang informal informal informal packet, bundle, megabuck, top whack