Definition of fortune

• n. - The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
• n. - That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
• n. - That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
• n. - Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
• n. - To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
• n. - To provide with a fortune.
• n. - To presage; to tell the fortune of.
• v. i. - To fall out; to happen.