fortune

Destiny, especially favorable.countableuncountable

• She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.

A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.countableuncountable

A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.countableuncountable

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.countableuncountable

• 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

Good luck.countableuncountable

• fame and fortune
• Fortune favors the brave.

One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.countableuncountable

• He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
• My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.

A large amount of money.countableuncountable

• That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?

To provide (someone) with a fortune.transitive

To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.transitive

To happen, to take place.intransitiveobsolete

• Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.
• It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]