ALL meanings of tell someone's fortune
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T t - noun tell someone's fortune position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune wealth or riches: to lose a small fortune in bad investments. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: to be worth a fortune. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune fortunes, things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune fate; lot; destiny: whatever my fortune may be. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune (initial capital letter) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune good luck; success; prosperity: a family blessed by fortune. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress. 1
- verb with object tell someone's fortune Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune. 1
- verb without object tell someone's fortune Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance. 1
- idioms tell someone's fortune tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell. 1
- noun tell someone's fortune to profess to tell what is going to happen in someone's life, as by palmistry, cards, etc. 0