fortune

A very large amount of money.

• That car cost a fortune.
• She made her fortune selling furniture.
• He inherited a small fortune from his uncle.

Similar words: wealth, riches

Common phrases: a small fortune, make a fortune, cost a fortune, inherit a fortune

Good things that happen to you by chance.

• We wished her good fortune.
• By good fortune, a doctor was nearby.
• They had the good fortune to find cheap tickets.

How to use it: have the good fortune to do something (I had the good fortune to meet my favorite writer.)

Similar words: luck, good luck

Opposites: misfortune

Common phrases: good fortune, have the fortune, a stroke of fortune

What someone says will happen in your future, often by looking at cards or your hand.

• She offered to tell my fortune.
• He read her fortune from a pack of cards.
• Do you believe the fortune she told you?

Similar words: prediction

Common phrases: tell someone’s fortune, read someone’s fortune, someone’s fortune

The things that happen or will happen in your life, especially successful or happy ones.

• He left home to seek his fortune.
• Their fortunes changed when the factory opened.
• No one knew what fortune awaited them abroad.

Similar words: fate, destiny

Common phrases: seek your fortune, someone’s fortune, change someone’s fortune

Luck imagined as a person who can help or harm people.

• Fortune smiled on our little village.
• Fortune favors those who dare to try.
• Cruel fortune had taken everything from him.

Common phrases: fortune smiles, fortune favors, cruel fortune