FORTUNES Synonyms

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

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

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

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

• a person's financial situation (good or bad)

• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

• the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events

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

• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

• the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events

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

• decree or designate beforehand

• (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a parcel of land having fixed boundaries

• an unofficial association of people or groups

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

• anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random

• any collection in its entirety

• divide into lots, as of land, for example

• administer or bestow, as in small portions

• an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment

• the condition of prospering; having good fortune

• an event that accomplishes its intended purpose

• an attainment that is successful

• a state of prosperity or fame

• a person with a record of successes

• the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money

• the quality of profuse abundance

• an abundance of material possessions and resources

• property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value

• an accidental happening

• come to pass

• a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

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

• an obstacle on a golf course

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• put at risk

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• something determined in relation to something that includes it

• something less than the whole of a human artifact

• the allotment of some amount by dividing something

• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

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

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

• an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal

• give out

• an abundance of material possessions and resources