position in life as determined by wealth

to make one's fortune.

wealth or riches

to lose a small fortune in bad investments.

great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like

to be worth a fortune.

chance; luck

They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.

fortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life.

fate; lot; destiny

whatever my fortune may be.

( initial capital letter ) 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

a family blessed by fortune.

Archaic . a wealthy woman; an heiress.

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

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

tell someone's fortune

to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell.

noun

hardship , misfortune , poverty

noun

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