fortune
Destiny, especially favorable.
Noun 4 meanings
Destiny, especially favorable.
“She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.”
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.
Verb 2 meanings
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
Etymology
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”.
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FORTUNE at a glance
FORTUNE has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (F 4 + O 1 + R 1 + T 1 + U 1 + N 1 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,221 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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