Usually means: Wealth or success achieved unexpectedly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fortune: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fortune: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fortune: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fortune: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fortune: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fortune, fortune: Wordnik
  7. fortune: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fortune: Wiktionary
  9. fortune: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fortune: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fortune: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fortune, fortune: Dictionary.com
  13. fortune: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fortune: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Fortune: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fortune: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fortune: Rhymezone
  19. fortune, fortune (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fortune: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fortune: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fortune: Free Dictionary
  23. fortune: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fortune: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fortune: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fortune: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fortune: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. fortune: Idioms

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  1. Fortune: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fortuned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fortune)

noun:  Destiny, especially favorable.
noun:  A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
noun:  A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
noun:  The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
noun:  Good luck.
noun:  One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
noun:  A large amount of money.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To provide (someone) with a fortune.
verb:  To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States.

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