WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper: fortune

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The noun fortune has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)

• 1. (4) luck, fortune, chance, hazard -- (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'' )
• 2. (3) fortune -- (a large amount of wealth or prosperity)
• 3. (2) luck, fortune -- (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'' )
• 4. (1) fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion -- (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'' )

Sense 1

• bad luck, mischance, mishap -- (an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; ``if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all'' )
• tossup, toss-up, even chance -- (an unpredictable phenomenon; ``it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose'' )

Sense 3

• good luck, fluke, good fortune -- (a stroke of luck)

Sense 4

• good fortune, luckiness, good luck -- (an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes)
• providence -- (a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures)
• misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck -- (an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes)
• failure -- (lack of success; ``he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure'' )

Sense 1

• phenomenon -- (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

Sense 2

• treasure, hoarded wealth -- (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; ``the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies'' )

Sense 3

• phenomenon -- (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

Sense 4

• condition -- (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; ``the human condition'' )

Sense 1

• phenomenon -- (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
• natural phenomenon -- (all phenomena that are not artificial)
• levitation -- (the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means)
• metempsychosis, rebirth -- (after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body)
• consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot -- (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; ``the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event'' )
• luck, fortune, chance, hazard -- (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'' )
• luck, fortune -- (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'' )
• pulsation -- (a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity)

Sense 2

• treasure, hoarded wealth -- (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; ``the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies'' )
• fortune -- (a large amount of wealth or prosperity)
• valuable -- (something of value; ``all our valuables were stolen'' )
• king's ransom -- (a very large treasure)
• treasure trove, trove -- (treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth))

Sense 3

• phenomenon -- (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
• natural phenomenon -- (all phenomena that are not artificial)
• levitation -- (the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means)
• metempsychosis, rebirth -- (after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body)
• consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot -- (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; ``the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event'' )
• luck, fortune, chance, hazard -- (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'' )
• luck, fortune -- (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'' )
• pulsation -- (a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity)

Sense 4

• condition -- (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; ``the human condition'' )
• stratification, social stratification -- (the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group)
• ordinary -- (the expected or commonplace condition or situation; ``not out of the ordinary'' )
• invagination, introversion -- (the condition of being folded inward or sheathed)
• roots -- (the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; ``his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots'' )
• lysogeny, lysogenicity -- (the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; ``when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny'' )
• fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion -- (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'' )
• amphidiploidy -- (the condition of being amphidiploid)
• diploidy -- (the condition of being diploid)
• haploidy -- (the condition of being haploid)
• heteroploidy -- (the condition of being heteroploid)
• polyploidy -- (the condition of being polyploid)
• mosaicism -- (the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup)
• orphanage, orphanhood -- (the condition of being a child without living parents; ``his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult'' )
• stigmatism -- (the condition of having or being marked by stigmata)
• transsexualism -- (condition in which a person assumes the identity and permanently acts the part of the gender opposite to his or her biological sex)

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