Word Finder - fortune

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Destiny, especially favorable.

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

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

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

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

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Good luck.

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Fortune favors the brave.

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

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

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A large amount of money.

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

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To happen, take place.

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To provide with a fortune.

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To presage; to tell the fortune of.

There must be a fortune right here in this building.

That castle cost a fortune to build.

I am not one of those on whom fortune deigns to smile.

Very well, but only if you give me a fortune, said Helene.

And people say that fortune comes to us in our sleep.

Sure, the million dollar offer was withdrawn but I'll bet there are thousands of people out there who would still pay a fortune to own Howie.

Proposing to seek his fortune abroad, he went on foot to Nantes, but was there prostrated by an illness so severe that all thoughts of emigration were perforce abandoned.

Definitely incorporated with this country in 1853, it experienced another change of fortune after the short war of 1864 between Denmark on the one side and Prussia and Austria on the other, as by the peace of Vienna (30th of October 1864) it was ceded with Schleswig and Holstein to the two German powers.

The Chinese were hard-working and had the usual fortune attending those who work hard.

His cruelty, his utter want of scruple, and his good fortune made him a terror to all Italy.

Your fortune cookies forget to tell you I'd figure out what you didn't tell me about Jenn?

Both left me everything, not that it was a fortune, but a good investment counselor did a nice job.

The Ancient Andre, who became dead-dead recently, left us his fortune, as have many others before him.

Italy at this time began to be overrun by bands of soldiers of fortune.

The change of fortune proved disastrous to many families, previously to all appearances in opulent circumstances, but by all classes alike their reverses were borne with the greatest bravery.

He left a fortune of many millions.

In 1688 an uncle left him a fortune.

It must have cost a fortune!

It wouldn't bring in a fortune, but at least she could feel she was contributing something to the income.

Her sadness had nothing to do with not appreciating their fortune.

Bird Song, while providing a simple living for them, was never going to bring a fortune to their bank account.

From the emoluments of a profession he " might have derived an ample fortune, or a competent income instead of being stinted to the same narrow allowance, to be increased only by an event which he sincerely deprecated."

Why would she hide him from me all this time and suddenly ask for a fortune?

When Dad died, he left this Ranch to his wife and stepson and his fortune went to the rest of us kids.

Would it be so terrible if she never acquired a fortune?

By his energy, industry and sound judgment he gradually enlarged his operations, did business in all the fur markets of the world, and amassed an enormous fortune, - the largest up to that time made by any American.

The rest, particularly the manor of Edgware, which made the fortune of the college, was bought from private owners.

At last, in 1795, the House of Lords gave a verdict of not guilty on all charges laid against him; and he left the bar at which he had so frequently appeared, with his reputation clear, but ruined in fortune.

The only gleam of success which shone on his ill fortune was the revolution which placed Florence in the hands of the Ghibellines in 1248.

Pushkin in one of his poems described young Gorchakov as "Fortune's favoured son," and predicted his success.

The ministry of Lord North, however, was tottering, and soon after fell; the Board of Trade was abolished by the passing of Burke's bill in 1782, and Gibbon's salary vanished with it - no trifle, for his expenditure had been for three years on a scale somewhat disproportionate to his private fortune.

He amassed a large fortune in Ireland, in which country he had been allotted lands by Cromwell.

His most noted work was a statue of Fortune, which he made for the city of Antioch, then newly founded.

He died of consumption and of mental strain on the 2nd of December 1892, his fortune at that time being estimated at $72,000,000; all of this he left to his own family.

David's good fortune did not desert him; he won his wife, and in this new advancement continued to grow in the popular favour, and to gain fresh laurels in the field.

Deprived of the protection of religion as well as of justice, David tried his fortune among the Philistines at Gath.

Pasteur had the good fortune, and just reward, of seeing the results of his work applied to the benefit both of the human race and of the animal world.

But fortune now brought Bonaparte to blight those hopes.

He left a fortune of some two millions sterling to his daughter, who married first a son of the Marquis di Rudini, and secondly Prince Gyalma Odescalchi.

If you figure out a way to do this all day and still make the ranch turn a profit, you could make a fortune teaching your method at seminars.

Squarcione adopted him as his son, and purposed making him the heir of his fortune.

An ample inherited fortune permitted him to pursue his studies undistracted by the necessity for earning a livelihood, and to maximize the results of his time and labour by the employment of amanuenses and secretaries.

For the present he experienced a sharp rebuff of fortune, which he met with his usual fortitude.

By good fortune the armada evaded Nelson and arrived safely off Malta.

The Ray Society had the good fortune to obtain the ten original copper-plates, all but one drawn by the author himself, wherewith the work was illustrated.

By his will Colleoni left his vast fortune to Venice on condition that a monument should be raised to him at St Mark's.

Were there numerous important centres the bad fortune of one would be more adequately offset by the good fortune of another.

Henceforth Rodrigo Diaz began to live that life of a soldier of fortune which has made him famous, sometimes fighting under the Christian banner, sometimes under Moorish, but always for his own hand.

Originally a nature goddess (like Venus the garden goddess, with whom she was sometimes identified), she represented at first the hope of fruitful gardens and fields, then of abundant offspring, and lastly of prosperity to come and good fortune in general, being hence invoked on birthdays and at weddings.

Like Fortune, with whom she is often coupled in inscriptions on Roman tombstones, she was also represented with the cornu copiae (horn of plenty).