fortune
/ˈfoɹt͡ʃən/ verb C2- To provide (someone) with a fortune.
- To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
He/she/it fortunes · Past fortuned · Past participle fortuned · -ing form fortuning
Verb forms
- Base form
- fortune
- He/she/it
- fortunes
- Past
- fortuned
- Past participle
- fortuned
- -ing form
- fortuning
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You paid him ten cents and a little bird picked out your fortune for you.
A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had died and left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces, according to their respective standings.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr.
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