FORTUNE


Meaning of FORTUNE in English

noun to provide with a fortune.

2. fortune ·vi to fall out; to happen.

3. fortune ·noun to make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

4. fortune ·noun to presage; to tell the fortune of.

5. fortune ·noun wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

6. fortune ·noun that which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.

7. fortune ·noun that which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.

8. fortune ·noun the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.

Webster English vocab.      Английский словарь Webster.