1. the chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck: he decided to go home for the holidays, and his fortune turned for the worse.
2. the turns of luck in the course of one's life.
3. success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck: no matter what they tried, it ended in fortune.
4. A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth: she pursued her fortune in another country.
5. extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.
6. A large sum of money: spent a fortune on the new car.
7. A hypothetical, often personified force or power that favorably or unfavorably governs the events of one's life: we believe that fortune is on our side.
8. fate; destiny: told my fortune with tarot cards.
9. A foretelling of one's destiny.
10. archaic to endow with wealth.
11. obsolete to ascribe or give good or bad fortune to.
12. archaic to occur by chance; happen.

1. destiny or fate.
2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
4. A chance.
5. good luck.
6. one's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
7. A large amount of money.

1. 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.
2. that which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny.
3. 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.
4. wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches.
5. to fall out; to happen.
6. to make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
7. to provide with a fortune.
8. to presage; to tell the fortune of.

1. to determine the fate or chance of; fix or control the lot or fortune of; dispose of.
2. to foretell the fortune or lot of; presage.
3. to endow with wealth or fortune.
4. to befall; fall out; happen; chance; come to pass casually.
5. to come by chance.
6. chance; hap; luck; fate.
7. chance personified; the events or circumstances of life antecedent to some result attributed to their working, more or less consciously personified and regarded as a divinity which metes out happiness and unhappiness, and distributes arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life.
8. that which falls to one as his portion in life or in any particular proceeding; the course of events as affecting condition or state; circumstances; lot: often in the plural: as, good or bad fortune; to share one's fortunes.
9. specifically, good luck; prosperity; success.
10. estate; possessions; especially, when used absolutely, large estate; wealth: as, he married a lady of fortune.
11. A person of wealth; especially, a marriageable heir or heiress.
12. in astrology, one of the fortunate planets: namely, jupiter, venus, the sun, the moon, and mercury.

1. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
2. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
3. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
4. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)