1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Noun
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
5. Noun
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
6. Noun
To provide with a fortune.
7. Noun
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
8. Verb
To fall out; to happen.
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