fortune

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

   whatever my fortune may be

2. 2
   noun

   Destiny, especially favorable.

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

3. 3
   noun

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

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

4. 4
   noun

   Good luck.

   fame and fortune

5. 5
   noun

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

   He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.

6. 6
   noun

   A large amount of money.

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

7. 7
   verb

   To happen, to take place.

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

Etymology

From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.