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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fortune \For"tune\ (f[^o]r"t[-u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See {Bear} to support, and cf. {Fortuitous}.] 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. [1913 Webster] 'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. --Shak. [1913 Webster] O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. --Cowley. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster] His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune. Syn: Chance; accident; luck; fate. [1913 Webster] {Fortune book}, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. --Crashaw. {Fortune hunter}, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage. {Fortune teller}, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another. {Fortune telling}, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fortune \For"tune\, v. t. [OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See {Fortune}, n.] 1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To provide with a fortune. --Richardson. [1913 Webster] 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fortune \For"tune\, v. i. To fall out; to happen. [1913 Webster] It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: fortune n 1: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: {luck}, {fortune}, {chance}, {hazard}] 2: a large amount of wealth or prosperity 3: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" [syn: {luck}, {fortune}] 4: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: {fortune}, {destiny}, {fate}, {luck}, {lot}, {circumstances}, {portion}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: Fortune /foʀtyn/ Fortune From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: fortune /foʀtyn/ destiny; fate; fortune; luck