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[Noun] | "for*tune" | \ ˈfȯr-chən \

1: a very large sum of money

2: riches, wealth

3: a store of material possessions

Origin: 14th century ;

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fortuna; akin to Latin fort-, fors chance, luck, and perhaps to ferre to carry {mat|bear|};

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[Noun] | "fortune cookie"

1: a thin cookie folded to contain a slip of paper on which is printed a fortune, proverb, or humorous statement

Origin: 1940 ;

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[Noun] | "fortune hunter"

1: a person who seeks wealth especially by marriage

Origin: 1689 ;

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[Noun] | "fortune teller"

1: someone or something with the supposed ability to foretell future events and especially the details of a person's future; sometimes, specifically : a child's toy that consists of paper folded into four pyramid-shaped parts which are manipulated by the fingers to open and close with each part having a flap that can be unfolded to reveal an answer to one's question about the future : cootie catcher

Origin: 1582 ;

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[Noun] | "small fortune"

1: a surprisingly or unexpectedly large amount of money

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[Verb] | "fortune"

1: to give good or bad fortune to

2: to endow with a fortune

3: happen, chance

Origin: 14th century ;

See: {fortune:1 };

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[Noun phrase] | "gentleman of fortune"

1: adventurer

Origin: 1724 ;

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[Noun phrase] | "soldier of fortune"

1: one who follows a military career wherever there is promise of profit, adventure, or pleasure

Origin: 1661 ;

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[Idiom] | "a hostage to fortune"

1: something (such as a promise or an action) that someone has made or done that may cause problems in the future

2: a person whose future success or failure is controlled by luck or fortune

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[Idiom] | "seek one's fortune"

1: to try to become rich

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[Noun] | "fortune"

1: what is going to happen to someone in the time ahead;

* e.g., " ... the telephone psychic proceeded to tell me my fortune—at great length "

Synonyms :
future

Antonyms :
past

2: a very large amount of money;

* e.g., " ... the billionaire's huge mansion must have cost a fortune "

Antonyms :
mite,
peanuts,
pittance,
song

3: a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand;

* e.g., " ... it was his fortune that he should wander in the wilderness before becoming king "

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[Noun] | "fortune-telling"

1: as in divination, soothsaying;

Antonyms :
science

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[Noun] | "fortune-tellings"

1: as in divinations, soothsayings;

Antonyms :
sciences

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[Noun] | "fortune-teller"

1: one who predicts future events or developments;

* e.g., " ... the carnival's fortune-teller should have predicted that I'd pass right by her "

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[Noun] | "fortune-tellers"

1: one who predicts future events or developments;

* e.g., " ... the carnival's fortune-teller should have predicted that I'd pass right by her "

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[Adjective] | "fortune-telling"

1: as in predicting, soothsaying;

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