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fortune
noun (CHANCE) /ˈfɔː.tʃuːn/
/ˈfɔːr-/ Definition
B2 [C or U] chance and the way it affects your life: He had the (good) fortune to train with some of the world's top athletes. The family's fortunes changed overnight.Chance and randomness tell sb's fortune › to discover what will happen to someone in the future, for example by looking at the lines on their hands or using a special set of cardsPredicting things and intuition
(Definition of fortune noun (CHANCE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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