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fortune | phone |

As an adjective fortune

is with good luck; fortunate.

As a verb phone is

.

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
  • , passage=
  • 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)

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    phone

    English

    (wikipedia phone)

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of (telephone).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances.
  • Derived terms
    * cell phone * clamshell phone * flip phone * mobile phone * phone sex * phone tag * smartphone
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (phon)
  • To call (someone) on the telephone.
  • Synonyms
    * call, ring, telephone
    Derived terms
    * phone it in * phone up

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.