Definition of "fortune" []

• The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck: He decided to go home for the holidays, and his fortune turned for the worse. (noun)
• The turns of luck in the course of one's life. (noun)
• Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck: No matter what they tried, it ended in fortune. (noun)
• A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth: She pursued her fortune in another country. (noun)
• Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth. (noun)

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• ""_Dix francs, et je ferai fortune -- dix francs, et je ferai fortune_ --" The old words seemed to set themselves to a tune in Madelon's head, chiming in with the croupier's perpetual "_Rouge gagne et la couleur_,""
• "Then, if she brought no fortune, and he had none, she ought not to have been _able to marry_: and, let me tell you, young man, a _small fortune_ would not put a servant-keeping wife upon an equality with one who required no such inmate."
• ""We are trying to make our fortune, or as the French more correctly express it, _Nous corrigous notre fortune_."