GOOD FORTUNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good fortune mean? 

• GOOD FORTUNE (noun)
  The noun GOOD FORTUNE has 2 senses:

1. an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes

2. a stroke of luck

  Familiarity information: GOOD FORTUNE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD FORTUNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

good fortune; good luck; luckiness

Hypernyms ("good fortune" is a kind of...):

circumstances; destiny; fate; fortune; lot; luck; portion (your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good fortune"):

prosperity; successfulness (the condition of prospering; having good fortune)

blessing; boon (a desirable state)

Antonym:

misfortune (an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stroke of luck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

fluke; good fortune; good luck

Hypernyms ("good fortune" is a kind of...):

fortune; luck (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good fortune"):

serendipity (good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries)

 Context examples 

This planet of good fortune will remain with you throughout 2020, until year’s end, December 19, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By the time Amy came in, Jo was able to take her part in the family jubilation, not quite as heartily as usual, perhaps, but without repinings at Amy's good fortune.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To be sure by next week I may be allowed to think it all settled, and build my own selfish schemes on Mr Elliot's good fortune.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You can imagine, Dr. Watson, how pleased I was at such an extraordinary bit of good fortune.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun of Martin's good fortune rose.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Simply by having the good fortune to get the right clue from the beginning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By good fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who have trusted me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It may possibly be your misfortune that you have to remain with us, but it is certainly our good fortune.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

John Dashwood was greatly astonished; but his nature was calm, not open to provocation, and he never wished to offend anybody, especially anybody of good fortune.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)