Fortune vs Fort - What's the difference?
fortune | fort |
Destiny, especially favorable.
* (1743-1809)
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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.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Good luck.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
A large amount of money.
(obsolete) To happen, take place.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew ch. 8:
* {{quote-book, 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, , chapter=Night 20,
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To provide with a fortune.
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
As adjectives the difference between fortune and fort
is that fortune is with good luck; fortunate while fort is .As a verb fort is
.fortune
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Noun
(en noun)- you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
- 'Tis more by fortune , lady, than by merit.
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune .
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* (good luck)Derived terms
* * fortune hunter * * * * * *Verb
(fortun)- Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.
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