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fortune

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/ˈfɔːtʃuːn/ English

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noun

  1. Destiny, especially favorable.“She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.”
  2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
  3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
  4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.

verb

  1. To happen, take place.
  2. To provide with a fortune.
  3. To presage; to tell the fortune of.

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