noun
1 luck
ADJECTIVE
▪ good
▪ bad , ill
… OF FORTUNE
▪ piece , stroke
▪
By a stroke of good ~, Steven was still in his office.
VERB + FORTUNE
▪ have
▪ bring (sb)
▪
A horseshoe nailed to your door is supposed to bring good ~.
FORTUNE + VERB
▪ be on sb's side , favour/favor sb , smile on sb
▪
For once, ~ was on our side: the weather improved in time for the game.
▪
Fortune smiled on me that day (= I had good fortune) .
PHRASES
▪ as good ~ would have it
▪
As good ~ would have it, a bus came along just when I needed it.
▪ a change in ~ , a change of ~
▪
All we can do is hope for a change in ~.
▪ have the good ~ to do sth
▪
I had the good ~ to work with people I liked.
2 fortunes what happens to sb/sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ declining , flagging
▪ changing , fluctuating , mixed
▪
a year of mixed ~s for the company
▪ economic , electoral , political
VERB + FORTUNES
▪ boost , improve , revive
▪
The party still hopes to revive its flagging electoral ~s.
▪ reverse
▪ follow
▪
fans who follow the ~s of their chosen team
FORTUNES + VERB
▪ change , fluctuate ( esp. BrE )
▪
A company's ~s can change overnight.
▪ improve , rise
▪ decline , fall
▪
as the country's ~s rose and fell
PHRASES
▪ a reversal of ~ , a reversal of ~s ( esp. BrE )
▪
The company suffered a reversal of ~ when public taste changed.
3 what is going to happen to sb in the future
VERB + FORTUNE
▪ read , tell
▪
They went to have their ~s read.
FORTUNE + NOUN
▪ teller , telling
4 very large amount of money
ADJECTIVE
▪ considerable , enormous , great , immense , large , substantial ( esp. BrE ), vast
▪ small (= quite large)
▪
Rebuilding the house must have cost a small ~.
▪ family , personal
VERB + FORTUNE
▪ accumulate , acquire , amass , build , build up , earn , make , win
▪ inherit
▪ leave (sb)
▪
Her aunt died and left her a ~.
▪ lose , squander
▪
He lost his ~ in the crash of 1929.
▪
She squandered the family ~.
▪ find , seek
▪
They went to seek their ~ in the city.
▪ be worth
▪
Some of those old toys are worth a ~ now.
▪ cost
▪ pay , spend
▪
She spends a ~ on clothes!
FORTUNE + NOUN
▪ hunter (= a person who tries to become rich by marrying sb with a lot of money)
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ from
▪
He built his ~ from breeding horses.
▪ ~ in
▪
She made a ~ in the property boom.
▪ ~ on
▪
They sold their house at the right time and made a ~ on it.
▪ ~ out
▪
He has amassed a considerable ~ out of trading shares.
PHRASES
▪ fame and ~
▪
They went to America in search of fame and ~.
▪ heir to a ~ , heiress to a ~
▪
He was sole heir to the family ~.