transcription, транскрипция: [ fɔ:(r)tʃu:n ]
( fortunes)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to a large sum of money as a fortune or a small fortune to emphasize how large it is.
We had to eat out all the time. It ended up costing a fortune...
He made a small fortune in the London property boom.
N-COUNT [ emphasis ]
2.
Someone who has a fortune has a very large amount of money.
He made his fortune in car sales...
Having spent his rich wife’s fortune, the Major ended up in a debtors’ prison.
N-COUNT : oft poss N
3.
Fortune or good fortune is good luck. Ill fortune is bad luck.
Government ministers are starting to wonder how long their good fortune can last.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you talk about someone’s fortunes or the fortunes of something, you are talking about the extent to which they are doing well or being successful.
The electoral fortunes of the Liberal Democratic party may decline...
The company had to do something to reverse its sliding fortunes.
N-PLURAL : with poss
5.
When someone tells your fortune , they tell you what they think will happen to you in the future, which they say is shown, for example, by the lines on your hand.
PHRASE : V inflects