good fortune

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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