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(1):

(v. i.) To fall out; to happen.

(2):

(n.) To provide with a fortune.

(3):

(n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(n.) To presage; to tell the fortune of.

(6):

(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.

(7):

(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.

(8):

(n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fortune'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fortune.html. 1828.
 
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