fortune : Idioms & Phrases


- Fortune hunter

  • one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage.
Webster 1913

Fortune book

  • a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it.
Webster 1913

  • noun thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
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fortune hunter

  • noun a person who seeks wealth through marriage
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Fortune teller

  • noun a person who foretells your personal future
    fortuneteller.
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  • one who professes to tell future events in the life of another.
Webster 1913

Fortune telling

  • noun the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
    divination; foretelling; soothsaying.
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  • the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another.
Webster 1913

good fortune

  • noun an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
    luckiness; good luck.
  • noun a stroke of luck
    fluke; good luck.
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small fortune

  • noun a large sum of money
    • he made a small fortune in the commodities market
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soldier of fortune

  • noun a person hired to fight for another country than their own
    mercenary.
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