Definition of "good fortune" []

• An auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes (noun)
• A stroke of luck (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I realize now that I had the good fortune to serve as the experimenter working with the then-relatively unknown medium John Edward."
• "This fact, that CO2 turns out to be gaseous rather than the usual solid oxide, is just another piece of good fortune that we have the choice of taking for granted or, instead, feeling it as a joyful part of the wonderful weave of life; as part of the extraordinary unified order that manifests itself throughout our uni-verse."
• "If we each balance our time, we may be able to extend our streak of evolutionary good fortune to something that approaches the periods contemplated by Carl Sagan.21 However, individuals no longer live in contained, isolated villages."