Fortune
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Fortune may refer to:
General concepts
- Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
- Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
- Prophecy, the prediction of future events
- Fortune, the predictions made in the process of fortune-telling
- Fortune, the printed slip of text contained in a fortune cookie
- Fortune, an alternative spelling of Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck
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Etymology
From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.
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See also
- Fortunes and Dreams (1917) by Astra Cielo
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