<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>position in life as determined by wealth: It's not easy to make one's fortune from humble beginnings.</li><li>wealth or riches: He lost a small fortune in bad investments.</li><li>great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: Those gems are worth a fortune.</li><li>chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.</li><li>fortunes: things that happen or are to happen to a person in their life: Her charitable spirit stayed with her even as her fortunes changed with marriage.</li><li>fate; lot; destiny: Whatever my fortune may be, my faith will guide me.</li><li>Fortune: chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.</li><li>good luck; success; prosperity: The family was blessed by fortune.</li><li>Archaic: a wealthy woman; an heiress.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) Archaic: to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.</li><li>(used without object) Archaic: to chance or happen; come by chance.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>