- position in life as determined by wealth: It's not easy to make one's fortune from humble beginnings.
- wealth or riches: He lost a small fortune in bad investments.
- great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: Those gems are worth a fortune.
- chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.
- things that happen or are to happen to a person in their life: Her charitable spirit stayed with her even as her fortunes changed with marriage.
- fate; lot; destiny: Whatever my fortune may be, my faith will guide me.
- chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.
- good luck; success; prosperity: The family was blessed by fortune.
- a wealthy woman; an heiress.
- to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
- to chance or happen; come by chance.
- to profess to inform someone of future events in their own life; foretell.
- an amount of wealth or material prosperity, esp, when unqualified, a great amount
- a large sum of money
- a power or force, often personalized, regarded as being responsible for human affairs; chance
- luck, esp when favourable
- a person's lot or destiny
- archaic
- to endow with great wealth
- to happen by chance
