Crossword-Solution: FORTUNE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fortune | n. | 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. |
| Fortune | n. | 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. |
| Fortune | n. | 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. |
| Fortune | n. | Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune. |
| Fortune | n. | To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. |
| Fortune | n. | To provide with a fortune. |
| Fortune | n. | To presage; to tell the fortune of. |
| Fortune | v. i. | To fall out; to happen. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FORTUNE | anagram | TENFOUR |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with FORTUNE (5)
Just as he was about to fall into the water, Dame Fortune, it is said, appeared to him and waking him from his slumber thus addressed him: “Good Sir, pray wake up: for if you fall into the well, the blame will be thrown on me, and I shall get an ill name among mortals; for I find that men are sure to impute their calamities to me, however much by their own folly they have really brought them on themselves.” Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
When the turquoise went to Malvina Sauvage, the French banker’s daughter, Marie shrugged her shoulders and betook herself to her little tent of shawls, where she began to shuffle her cards by the light of a tallow candle, calling out, “Fortunes, fortunes!” The young priest, Father Duchesne, went first to have his fortune read.
And now going away!” “I would have willingly.” “Yet now that I am more helpless than ever you go away.” “Yes, that’s the ill fortune o’ it,” said Gabriel, in a distressed tone.
And yet his fortune brings him little joy; For blind of seeing, clad in beggar’s weeds, For purple robes, and leaning on his staff, To a strange land he soon shall grope his way.
Quoted here because it seems to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in {fortune cookie} files and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks.
Quotes with FORTUNE (3)
Happiness There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigalwho comes back to the dust at your feethaving squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of whatwas lost, and take from its place the finestgarment, which you saved for an occasionyou could not imagine, and you weep night and dayto know that you were not abandoned, that happiness saved its most extreme formfor you alone. No, happiness is the unc…
see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
♔ Writing is my passion. I never want to let it go. It may be short, Fan-Fiction or purely my own work. But it is my kingdom, I am the princess. For all the noble readers in the kingdom, I bring them joy with tales. My knights that protect me, are my fellow writers. The dragon would be the inspiration for my writing. The fortune teller would be my best friend, giving me hope. The castle would be Wattpad, it keeps everything protected. ♔
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1968–2021).