Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - fortune

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fortuna; akin to Latin fort-, fors chance, luck, and perhaps to ferre to carry — more at bear  Date: 14th century  1. often capitalized a hypothetical force or personified power that unpredictably determines events and issues favorably or unfavorably  2. obsolete accident, incident  3.  a. prosperity attained partly through luck ; success  b. luck 1  c. plural the turns and courses of luck accompanying one's progress (as through life) her ~s varied but she never gave up  4. destiny, fate can tell your ~; also a prediction of ~  5.  a. riches, wealth a man of ~  b. a store of material possessions the family ~  c. a very large sum of money spent a ~ redecorating  II. verb  (~d; fortuning)  Date: 14th century  transitive verb  1. obsolete to give good or bad ~ to  2. archaic to endow with a ~  intransitive verb archaic happen, chance