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say it: FAWR-chuhn
fortune is a noun meaning "an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a large amount of wealth or prosperity
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
“it was my good luck to be there”
“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)
“whatever my fortune may be”
“deserved a better fate”
“has a happy lot”
“the luck of the Irish”
“a victim of circumstances”
“success that was her portion”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fortune come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.