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Fortune meaning

Destiny, especially favorable. | A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller. | A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.

Example sentences (20)

All the messages have brought comfort to the family, but it was those that came from the littlest Fortune students that choked up Dr. Margaret Fortune, who visited one of the Fortune School campuses two days after her father’s death.

Dr. Fortune was also the CEO and president of Fortune & Associates, through which he and his son, Rex Fortune III wrote several books and produced videos aimed at helping educators and parents close the academic achievement gap.

The Fortune Deck To decide what happens, the GM considers the rules of Karma (characters' statistics and Powers), Drama (the needs of the plot), and Fortune, the result of a card drawn from the Fortune Deck.

Fortune Magazine did a survey of what colleges produced to most Fortune 500 CEO’s.

It is absolutely one of the biggest cities in the U.S. and one of the largest Fortune 500 companies or cities with Fortune 500 companies outside of New York, I think it's number two in the U.S. So there's huge activity.

Good fortune sometimes helps conservation, but generally conservation builds its own good fortune by deliberate buys of land with rich habitat.

Not knowing what to expect, it turns out to be much like a fortune cookie where the only fortune inside is shallots, and I’m OK with that as my potential future.

Together, the pair amassed a staggering fortune - even as Gisele put her fashion career on the backburner in order to support her husband's quest for continued Super Bowl glory - they were estimated have a combined fortune of $733 million.

According to Fortune, Fortune 500 companies represent two-thirds of the U.S. GDP and employ 29.2 million people worldwide.

It’s great you are using your self-earned fortune, which dwarf’s Donny’s alleged fortune that was inherited, to fight ignorance and incompetence.

Getting an upset win probably requires a little bit of good fortune, and there is no better possible stroke of fortune for Tottenham than a fit Harry Kane.

Crocker exhibit celebrates E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit “Above the Town” by E. Charlton Fortune, 1918.

It may be hard to convince a team to give up a fortune in draft picks for the right to pay Mack a fortune in cash.

The SI/Fortune/Money deal has been held up, as the Benioffs were also interested in purchasing Fortune, but eventually chose to buy Time in a standalone deal.

Although the Fortune Deck resembles (and can be used as) a fortune-telling device, Everway treats the Deck only as a storytelling device and an element of the fictional setting.

A theodicy of good fortune seeks to justify the good fortune of people in society; Weber believed that those who are successful are not satisfied unless they can justify why they deserve to be successful.

Each Emperor chose the color that his fortune-tellers believed would bring the most prosperity and good fortune to his reign.

Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie" (1957) is supposedly written by Kornbluth using notes by "Cecil Corwin", who has been declared insane and incarcerated, and who smuggles out in fortune cookies the ultimate secret of life.

He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to leave behind another fortune in silver, because it was too heavy to carry back to England.

Lynn Downey, Levi Strauss & Co. (2007) Other businessmen, through good fortune and hard work, reaped great rewards in retail, shipping, entertainment, lodging, James Lick made a fortune running a hotel and engaging in land speculation in San Francisco.