Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - fortune
Fortune
fortune
n. 1 a chance or luck as a force in human affairs. b a person's destiny. 2 (Fortune) this force personified, often as a deity. 3 (in sing. or pl.) luck (esp. favourable) that befalls a person or enterprise. 4 good luck. 5 prosperity; a prosperous condition. 6 (also colloq. small fortune) great wealth; a huge sum of money. Phrases and idioms fortune-hunter colloq. a person seeking wealth by marriage. fortune-teller a person who claims to predict future events in a person's life. fortune-telling the practice of this. make a (or one's) fortune acquire wealth or prosperity. tell a person's fortune make predictions about a person's future. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L fortuna luck, chance
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I. noun see: bear Date: 14th century a hypothetical force or personified power that unpredictably determines events and issues favorably or unfavorably, accident, incident, 3. prosperity attained partly through luck ; success, luck 1, the turns and courses of luck accompanying one's progress (as through life) , destiny, fate , 5. riches, wealth , a store of material possessions , a very large sum of money , II. verb (~d; fortuning) Date: 14th century transitive verb to give good or bad ~ to, to endow with a ~, intransitive verb happen, chance ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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