Definitions for Fortune

Fortune for·tune

Spelling: [fawr-chuh n]
IPA: /ˈfɔr tʃən/

Fortune is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in Fortune (efnortu).

Definitions for Fortune

noun

  1. position in life as determined by wealth:
  2. wealth or riches:
  3. great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like:
  4. chance; luck:
  5. fortunes, things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life.
  6. fate; lot; destiny:
  7. (initial capital letter) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life:
  8. good luck; success; prosperity:
  9. Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.

Idioms

  1. tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.

verb (used without object)

  1. Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.

Origin of Fortune

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Latin fortūna chance, luck, fortune, derivative of fort- (stem of fors) chance

Examples for Fortune

According to lore, 145 of these original soldiers of fortune either fled battle or were captured and settled in the area.

"It's like starting West again to make our fortune," said Uncle Peter.

Meanwhile, fortune had improved with Mr. Davis, the superintendent of the factory.

Avice Milbrey had the fortune to witness one of these bed-time causeries.

The city became a Mecca for hordes of hipsters and creative types as well as young people seeking their fortune in finance.

The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by fortune it was dilapidated.

“I suppose she'll want a fortune as well,” he says, looking at me as if I were Liv Ullmann's agent.

Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

He went dazedly in to him,—and was awakened from the dream that he had been losing a fortune in his sleep.

Almost every Barbarian at the table had made his own fortune.

Word Value for Fortune
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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