Good Fortune

Definition: Good Fortune

Good Fortune

Noun

1. A auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes.

2. A stroke of luck.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Good Fortune

Good

Good fortune; (prosperity); happiness.

Boon; (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove.

Prosperity

Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.

Keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run of luck; have the good fortune; n. to; take a favorable turn; live on the fat of the land, live off the fat of the land, live in clover.

Success

Continued success; good fortune; (prosperity); time well spent.

Crosswords: Good Fortune

Action brings good fortune. (Chapter 24; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Giuseppe's Good Fortune (1912)

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Books

• Absolute Good Fortune (reference)

• Create Your Own Luck : 8 Principles of Attracting Good Fortune in Life, Love, and Work (reference)

• Key to Good Fortune (reference)

• Lillian Too's Practical Feng Shui: Symbols of Good Fortune (reference)

• Zalacain the Adventurer: The History of the Good Fortune and Wanderings of Martin Zalacain of Urbia (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Good fortune arrived for the pair in the shape of a travelling Punch and Judy show. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stuart, (seated) of Hempstead County, Arkansas, are shown reading the news about their good fortune in becoming the first Negro family in the nation to receive a farm housing loan, authorized by the Housing Act of 1949, which Congress pas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And then there came to him a good fortune for which he had not even hoped, oil upon the fire, double darkness upon his eyes.

By good fortune he had been so well taught, that I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt, or even tearing my clothes.

Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

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Economic History

Uzbekistan

This good fortune is attributable to several factors: Uzbekistan's principal exports were and remain cotton and gold, for which it was easily able to find new markets. (references)

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Expression using "good fortune": have good fortune. Additional references.

Chinese 

祿 (official salary), 福 , 嘏 (far, grand, longevity). (various references)

Finnish

myötäinen onni (luck). (various references)

French

chance. (various references)

Greek 

ευτύχημα (lucky thing). (various references)

Indonesian

daulat. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

隆運 (prosperity), 福 , 僥倖 (fortuitous, godsend, luck, windfall), 果� � (happiness, luck), 幸せ (blessing, happiness, luck), 倖せ (blessing, happiness, luck), 仕合わせ (blessing, happiness, luck). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎょう�"う (fortuitous, godsend, Imperial visit, luck, the light of dawn, windfall), しあわせ (blessing, happiness, luck), ふく (additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bend down, clothes, collateral, compound, copy, crawl, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to), かほう (addition, artillery, extra allowance, family code, happiness, heirloom, lower part, lower region, luck, overpraise, slump), りゅうう�" (prosperity). (various references)

Pig Latin

oodgay ortunefay

Romanian

avea noroc (be in luck, fluke, have good fortune). (various references)

Scottish

piseach (luck, prosperity, success). (various references)

2. �ag. (various references)

beata, beati, beato, beatum, prospera, prosperitas, prosperitatem, prosperitatis. (various references)

bâgem, ushta. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: underfoot.

-3 letters: fortuned, trudgeon, unforged, unforgot, unroofed, unrooted.

-4 letters: duotone, fordone, foregut, forgone, fortune, founder, fourgon, fronted, godroon, grouted, grunted, guerdon, orotund, outdoer, outdone, outdoor, outgone, outrode, refound, tongued, trudgen, undergo.

-5 letters: detour, drogue, drongo, enduro, enroot, foetor, fonder, fondue, footed, footer, foredo, forego, forged, forget, forgot, gentoo, gerund, goofed, gourde, ground, gurnet, noodge.