Fortune

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun To provide with a fortune.

II. Fortune ·vi To fall out; to Happen.

III. Fortune ·noun To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

IV. Fortune ·noun To Presage; to tell the fortune of.

V. Fortune ·noun Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

VI. Fortune ·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.

VII. Fortune ·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.

VIII. Fortune ·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.