fortune – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
fortune
n.
luck, chance; good luck, success; wealth, riches; great wealth; fate
Fortune
n.
family name; Robert Fortune (1813-1880), British botanist and traveller who introduced to Europe many flowers and trees he brought back from his travels to India and Formosa and Japan
a fortune
very high price, costs a lot, high amount of money in an astonishing manner, very expensive
cost a fortune
something costs a lot, sonething that has a high price
Fortune
Fortune or
Fortuné may refer to:
- Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
- Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
- Fortune, the predictions made in the process of fortune-telling
- Fortune, the printed slip of text contained in a fortune cookie
Fortune (Unix)
fortune is a simple program that displays a
pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in
Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the
BSD fortune, originally written by
Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on
fortune cookies (hence the name), quotations from famous people, jokes, or poetry.
fortune
Noun
1. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
(synonym) luck, chance, hazard
(hypernym) phenomenon
(hyponym) bad luck, mischance, mishap
2. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
(hypernym) treasure, hoarded wealth
3. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
(synonym) luck
(hypernym) phenomenon
(hyponym) good luck, fluke, good fortune
4. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
(synonym) destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
(hypernym) condition
(hyponym) good fortune, good luck
Fortune (die)
nf.
fortune, luck, chance, good luck
Fortune
n.
Fortune, family name, female first name; Robert Fortune (1813-1880), British botanist
fortune
nf.
wealth, fortune, estate; luck; substance
fortuné
adj.
wealthy, rich, affluent
