fortune

Meanings

Noun

• Destiny, especially favorable.
• A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
• A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
• The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
• Good luck.
• One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
• A large amount of money.

Verb

• To happen, to take place.

Related

Opposite words

• doom, misfortune

Origin

• From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna ("fate, luck"). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.