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fortune
Noun
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A very large amount of money.
A million dollars is a fortune.
He made a fortune selling cars.
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Fortune is chance or luck.
When we were lost, we had the good fortune to meet a postman.
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Fortune is a person's future.
Jack went off into the world to seek his fortune.
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Fortune is often written about as if it was a person.
Fortune smiled at me, and I won the lottery.
is
Verb
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A form of the verb be when talking about someone or something else.
He is late for class.
Is it hot in here?
fickle
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adjective
(= volatile)
marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
fickle friends
a flirt's volatile affections
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adjective
(= erratic, mercurial, quicksilver)
liable to sudden unpredictable change
erratic behavior
fickle weather
mercurial twists of temperament
a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next