Found 4 items, similar to fortune.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: fortune kekayaan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: fortune nasib, peruntungan, rezeki, untung
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fortune fortune n 1: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; “bad luck caused his downfall”; “we ran into each other by pure chance” [syn: luck, chance, hazard] 2: a large amount of wealth or prosperity 3: 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” [syn: luck] 4: 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” [syn: destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fortune Fortune \For"tune\ (f[^o]r"t[-u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. --Shak. [1913 Webster] O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. --Cowley. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster] His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune. Syn: Chance; accident; luck; fate. [1913 Webster] Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. --Crashaw. Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage. Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another. Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another. [1913 Webster] Fortune \For"tune\, v. t. [OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n.] 1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To provide with a fortune. --Richardson. [1913 Webster] 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Fortune \For"tune\, v. i. To fall out; to happen. [1913 Webster] It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]