the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.-that which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.-that which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.-wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.-to make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.-to provide with a fortune.-to presage; to tell the fortune of.-to fall out; to happen.