fortune
Destiny or riches
Fortune is luck or chance, especially as a force shaping events: Fortune smiled on us that day.
A fortune is also a large amount of money or wealth: She inherited a fortune, He made a fortune in real estate.
To tell someone's fortune is to predict their future, as with cards or palm reading.
Good fortune and bad fortune are luck of either kind.
Fortune favors the bold.
Accumulated gambling prize
- bonanzaSudden large windfall
- bountyReward for capture
- prizeReward for winning
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
bequest · payout · manna · boon · largesse · reward · treasure trove · lottery win
Abundant valuable possessions
- moneyCurrency for transactions
- affluenceAbundance of money
- assetsOwned items of value
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
billionaire · millionaire · opulence · prosperity · capital · bankroll · savings · investments
Likelihood of occurrence
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- randomnessLack of predictable pattern
- flukeChance stroke of luck
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
happenstance · luckiness · fortuity · accident · stroke of luck · probability · lottery · gamble
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
inevitability · prophecy · oracle · omen · foreordained · karma · determinism · fatalism
Fortune-teller's viewing sphere
- palm readingDivination via hand lines
- tarotDivination card set
- tea leavesDried plant for steeping
- horoscopeZodiac-based fortune telling
soothsayer · psychic · clairvoyant · seer · prophecy · augury · diviner · astrology
Property received from ancestors
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- bequestGift left by will
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
estate · birthright · patrimony · beneficiary · heir · trust fund · will · testament
jackpot
Accumulated gambling prize
inheritance · bequest · payout · manna · boon · largesse · reward · treasure trove · lottery win · gold mine
riches
Abundant valuable possessions
treasure · billionaire · millionaire · opulence · prosperity · capital · bankroll · savings · investments · portfolio
chance
Likelihood of occurrence
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- randomnessLack of predictable pattern
- flukeChance stroke of luck
coincidence · happenstance · luckiness · fortuity · accident · stroke of luck · probability · lottery · gamble · odds
fate
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
doom · inevitability · prophecy · oracle · omen · foreordained · karma · determinism · fatalism · lot
crystal ball
Fortune-teller's viewing sphere
- palm readingDivination via hand lines
- tarotDivination card set
- tea leavesDried plant for steeping
horoscope · soothsayer · psychic · clairvoyant · seer · prophecy · augury · diviner · astrology · zodiac
inheritance
Property received from ancestors
endowment · estate · birthright · patrimony · beneficiary · heir · trust fund · will · testament · dynastic wealth
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- Lunar New Yearred envelopes, lion dance, dragon dance, firecrackers, lanterns
- accumulationaccumulation, heap, pile, stack, hoard
- Arabian NightsAladdin, Scheherazade, Ali Baba, Arabian Nights, Sinbad
- chancechance, luck, lottery, dice, randomness
- fate and chancefate, luck, destiny, coincidence, randomness
fortunepoverty
Severe lack of resources
destitution · penury · indigence · impoverishment · pennilessness
fortunemisfortune
Adverse circumstance or event
bad luck · ill luck · unluckiness · mischance · mishap
fortunemisery
Intense prolonged distress
misfortune · sorrow · affliction · trouble · ruin
- good fortuneFavorable chance outcomes
- fortune tellingPredicting someone's future
- fortune cookieEdible slip holder
- small fortuneSubstantial amount of money
- make a fortuneAcquire substantial wealth
- fortune tellerOne who predicts futures
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