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Fortune

noun

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck. "We ran into each other by pure chance"

A large amount of wealth or prosperity.

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome. Synonym: luck. "They say luck is a lady" , "It was as if fortune guided his hand"

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion. "Deserved a better fate" , "Has a happy lot" , "The luck of the Irish" , "A victim of circumstances" , "Success that was her portion"

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"Fortune" Quotes from Famous Books

... I've something very important to tell you," was the answer in a low voice, yet which carried to Tom's ears perfectly. "Do you want to make a fortune for yourself—and for me?" ...

— Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers - or The Secret of Phantom Mountain • Victor Appleton

... The aunts laughed,—though I was so serious,—and tipped a wink to the girls. The girls wanted to laugh, but were afraid to. And then it came out that the aunts had sold their old hoops, tied as tight as they could tie them, in a great mass of rags. They had made a fortune by the sale,—I am sorry to say it was in other rags, but the rags they got were new instead of old,—it was a real Aladdin bargain. The new rags had blue backs, and were numbered, some as high as fifty dollars. ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) • Various

... realize at the time my good fortune in arriving here in daylight. It seems that it is the invariable habit of all coastal steamers to reach here at night, and dump the dumbly resenting passengers in the darkness into the tiny punts which cluster around the ship's side. Since my arrival every ...

— Le Petit Nord - or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour • Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell and Katie Spalding

... Miss Ernestine Bergot my residuary legatee'; but he had written underneath, 'on condition that she shall pay to each of my sisters the sum of a hundred and fifty thousand francs.' This was more than three-fourths of his whole fortune. ...

— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau

... apt to judge of everything by its success; and whoever has ill-fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. This, my lord, was my unhappiness in my late expedition in the Roebuck, which foundered through perfect age near the island of Ascension. I suffered extremely in my reputation by that misfortune, though I comfort myself with the thoughts that ...

— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery

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