Luck vs. Fortune

Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.

Example: ‘The raffle is just a matter of luck.’; ‘Sometimes it takes a bit of luck to get success.’; ‘I couldn't believe my luck when I found a fifty dollar bill on the street.’; ‘Gilbert had some bad luck yesterday — he got pick-pocketed and lost fifty dollars.’;

A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.

Example: ‘He blew on the dice for luck.’; ‘I wish you lots of luck for the exam tomorrow.’;

Success.

Example: ‘I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck.’; ‘He has a lot of luck with the ladies, perhaps it is because of his new motorbike.’;

The results of a random number generator.

(intransitive) To succeed by chance.

Example: ‘His plan lucked out.’;

(intransitive) To rely on luck.

Example: ‘No plan. We're just to going to have to luck through.’;

(transitive) To carry out relying on luck.

Example: ‘Our plan is to luck it through.’;

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck; as, luck is better than skill; a stroke of luck.

Example: ‘If thou dost play with him at any game,Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck,He beats thee 'gainst the odds.’;

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

Example: ‘whatever my fortune may be’; ‘deserved a better fate’; ‘has a happy lot’; ‘the luck of the Irish’; ‘a victim of circumstances’; ‘success that was her portion’;

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

Example: ‘bad luck caused his downfall’; ‘we ran into each other by pure chance’;

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;

Example: ‘it was my good luck to be there’; ‘they say luck is a lady’; ‘it was as if fortune guided his hand’;

success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions

Example: ‘they're supposed to bring good luck’; ‘it was just luck that the first kick went in’;

chance considered as a force that causes good or bad things to happen.

something regarded as bringing about or portending good or bad things

Example: ‘I don't like Friday—it's bad luck’;

chance to find or acquire

Example: ‘he lucked into a disc-jockey job’;

achieve success or advantage by good luck

Example: ‘I lucked out and found a wonderful woman’;

Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen all the time, both due to random and non-random natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can happen by random chance.

Destiny, especially favorable.

Example: ‘She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.’;

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.

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.

Good luck.

Example: ‘Fortune favors the brave.’;

One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.

Example: ‘He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.’; ‘My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.’; ‘Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars.’;

A large amount of money.

Example: ‘That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?’;

To happen, take place.

To provide with a fortune.

To presage; to tell the fortune of.

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.

Example: ‘'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit.’; ‘O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.’;

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.

Example: ‘You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.’;

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.

Example: ‘Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.’; ‘There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.’; ‘His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune.’;

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.

Example: ‘It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.’;

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

Example: ‘bad luck caused his downfall’; ‘we ran into each other by pure chance’;

a large amount of wealth or prosperity

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;

Example: ‘it was my good luck to be there’; ‘they say luck is a lady’; ‘it was as if fortune guided his hand’;

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

Example: ‘whatever my fortune may be’; ‘deserved a better fate’; ‘has a happy lot’; ‘the luck of the Irish’; ‘a victim of circumstances’; ‘success that was her portion’;