Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To provide (someone) with a fortune.

  2. (transitive)To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.

  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To happen, to take place.

Examples

449 sentences
  1. Tom will probably make a fortune.

    Том, мабуть, заробить цілий статок. — deniko

  2. He left his daughter a great fortune.

    Він залишив своїй доньці гарний спадок. — ChickenKiev

    ruОн оставил своей дочери огромное состояние. — Lenin_1917

  3. Tom gambled away a fortune in one night.

    Том програв ціле багатство за одну ніч. — ChickenKiev

    ruТом проиграл целое состояние за один вечер. — marafon

    deTom hat in einer Nacht ein Vermögen verspielt. — Malkuth

  4. My mistake cost me my fortune.

    ruМоя ошибка стоила мне состояния. — entoursis

    deMein Fehler kostete mich mein Vermögen. — Ullalia

  5. I came into a huge fortune.

    ruЯ получил огромное наследство. — sharptoothed

    deIch habe ein beträchtliches Vermögen geerbt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). T

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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Forms

fortunes, fortuning, fortuned, fortuned
Base formfortune · to fortune
3rd person singularfortunes
Present participlefortuning
Past simplefortuned
Past participlefortuned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfortune
he, she, itfortunes

Past simpleLesson

all personsfortuned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fortuned
he, she, ithas fortuned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fortune

Collocations

7 patterns
  • made a fortune
  • a large fortune
  • fortune teller
  • large fortune
  • a fortune teller
  • a fortune in
  • good fortune

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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