Englishfor English speakers
la fortune sourit aux audacieux
LA
Abbreviation
—
Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
I live in Baton Rouge, LA.
—
Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.
—
Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA
Initialism
—
Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.
We went to LA for the summer.
—
Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.
fortune
Noun
—
A very large amount of money.
A million dollars is a fortune.
He made a fortune selling cars.
—
Fortune is chance or luck.
When we were lost, we had the good fortune to meet a postman.
—
Fortune is a person's future.
Jack went off into the world to seek his fortune.
—
Fortune is often written about as if it was a person.
Fortune smiled at me, and I won the lottery.