Fortune vs Kismet - What's the difference?

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Fortune is a synonym of kismet.

As nouns the difference between fortune and kismet

is that fortune is destiny, especially favorable while kismet is fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.

As a verb fortune

is (obsolete|intransitive) to happen, take place.

fortune

English

Noun

(en noun)

Destiny, especially favorable.

* (1743-1809)

you, who men's fortunes in their faces read

* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

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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)

'Tis more by fortune , lady, than by merit.

Good luck.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune .

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

A large amount of money.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (good luck)

Derived terms

* * fortune hunter * * * * * *

Verb

(fortun)

(obsolete) To happen, take place.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew ch. 8:

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.

* {{quote-book, 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, , chapter=Night 20,

, It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning}}

To provide with a fortune.

(Richardson)

To presage; to tell the fortune of.

(Dryden)

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Anagrams

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kismet

English

Alternative forms

* kismat

Noun

(en-noun)

Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.

Synonyms

* (fate) destiny, fate, fortune, lot

Alternative forms

Noun

(l)

fate

Declension

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Synonyms

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