Meaning of good fortune | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Good luck.
   uncountable, usually
2. An instance of good luck.
   countable, usually
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, fortune.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“While an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke, she had the good fortune to take a creative-writing class at nearby Hampshire College with James Baldwin, who suggested she try playwriting, and, even though she feared he was just trying to politely steer her away from prose, she did.”

“These deeply significant motifs of the perils, obstacles, and good fortunes of the way, we shall find inflected through the following pages in a hundred forms.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

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