fortune

Found in thesaurus: phenomenon, treasure, hoarded wealth, condition

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fortune

n. luck, chance; good luck, success; wealth, riches; great wealth; fate

Fortune

n. family name; Robert Fortune (1813-1880), British botanist and traveller who introduced to Europe many flowers and trees he brought back from his travels to India and Formosa and Japan

a fortune

very high price, costs a lot, high amount of money in an astonishing manner, very expensive

cost a fortune

something costs a lot, sonething that has a high price

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Fortune

Fortune or Fortuné may refer to:

Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
Fortune, the predictions made in the process of fortune-telling
Fortune, the printed slip of text contained in a fortune cookie

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Fortune (Unix)

fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on fortune cookies (hence the name), quotations from famous people, jokes, or poetry.

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fortune

Noun
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"
(synonym) luck, chance, hazard
(hypernym) phenomenon
(hyponym) bad luck, mischance, mishap
2. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
(hypernym) treasure, hoarded wealth
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"
(synonym) luck
(hypernym) phenomenon
(hyponym) good luck, fluke, good 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"
(synonym) destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
(hypernym) condition
(hyponym) good fortune, good luck

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Fortune (die)

nf. fortune, luck, chance, good luck

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Fortune

n. Fortune, family name, female first name; Robert Fortune (1813-1880), British botanist

fortune

nf. wealth, fortune, estate; luck; substance

fortuné

adj. wealthy, rich, affluent