Fate vs. Fortune
Fatenoun
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
Fatenoun
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Fatenoun
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Fatenoun
(mythology) lang=en (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
Fateverb
(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
Fatenoun
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Fatenoun
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
Fatenoun
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
Fatenoun
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Fatenoun
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Fatenoun
the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);
Fatenoun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
Fateverb
decree or designate beforehand;
Fortunenoun
Destiny, especially favorable.
Fortunenoun
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
Fortunenoun
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
Fortunenoun
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
Fortunenoun
Good luck.
Fortunenoun
One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
Fortunenoun
A large amount of money.
Fortuneverb
To happen, take place.
Fortuneverb
To provide with a fortune.
Fortuneverb
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
Fortunenoun
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.
Fortunenoun
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.
Fortunenoun
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.
Fortunenoun
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
Fortuneverb
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
Fortuneverb
To provide with a fortune.
Fortuneverb
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
Fortuneverb
To fall out; to happen.
Fortunenoun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;
Fortunenoun
a large amount of wealth or prosperity
Fortunenoun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;
Fortunenoun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
