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Meanings of fortune in English
Usage of fortune in English
1
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
2
My grandmother, by good fortune, was not quite in the same situation.
3
The number 8 is particularly auspicious, symbolizing sudden prosperity and good fortune.
4
A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.
5
He lost his home, his family, his law practice, and his fortune.
6
Belgium have enjoyed some good fortune on their way to the final.
7
So go now, dear lady, go in good scent And good fortune.
8
This reliquary and its contents had the power to bring good fortune.
9
It was great good fortune that no injuries or fatalities were involved.
10
How much trade-off of fortune and power is behind this? it said.
11
This year's Sunday Times Rich List estimated her fortune at £75 million.
12
Six years later, he left home to make his fortune in Bangkok.
13
The work took four years and the better part of Gregorius's fortune.
14
In gratitude for his good fortune he often gave money to beggars.
15
Here is a great fortune gone; gone in a moment; gone incomprehensibly.
16
These alterations in our birth produce the like changes in our fortune.
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Fortune across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
Common
Ireland
Less common
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