Wheel of Fortune

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wheel of Fortune (“the mythological wheel turned randomly by Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate, fortune, and luck, to determine people's fortunes which were thus unpredictable”).
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2. A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally to determine, by its stopping position, whether a gambler will receive one of the prizes marked around its circumference.
3. The mythological wheel turned randomly by Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate, fortune, and luck, to determine people's fortunes which were thus unpredictable.
4. Synonym of Big Six wheel (“a game of chance consisting of a vertically mounted wheel divided into equal marked sectors; the winning sector is the one indicated by a pointer when the wheel stops turning”).
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5. A tarot card with an image of Fortuna's wheel (sense 1), generally the tenth of 22 trumps of the major arcana in most tarot decks.
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Equivalents

15 more languages

العربيةعجلة الحظ

CymraegOlwyn Ffawd

Suomionnenpyörä

Italianola ruota della fortunaruota della fortuna

日本語運命の輪

ქართულიბედის ბორბალი

한국어운명의 바퀴운명의 수레바퀴

Nederlandsrad van fortuin

Polskikoło fortuny

Portuguêsa Roda da Fortunaroda da Fortuna

Românăroata norocului

Русскийколесо́ форту́ны

Svenskalyckohjullyckohjulet

Tagaloggulong ng kapalarangulong ng palad

Türkçeçarkıfelek

Examples

“I hold⟳ the Fates bound faſt in yron chaines, / And with my hand turne Fortunes wheel about, / And ſooner ſhall the Sun fall⟳ from his Spheare, / Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.”

“The vvheel of fortune turns inceſſantly round, and vvho can ſay vvithin himſelf I ſhall to day be uppermoſt.”

“I was young enough not to part with hope⟳ too easily;—the vague idea I had that my turn⟳ would come⟳,—that the ever-circling wheel of Fortune would perchance lift⟳ me up some day as it now crushed me down, kept me just wearily capable of continuing existence,—though it was merely a continuance and no more.”

“As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune, a central concept in De Consolatione Philosophiae, the philosophical work⟳ which had laid foundation for medieval thought. […] Was his wheel rapidly spinning downward?”

“I was young enough not to part with hope⟳ too easily;—the vague idea I had that my turn⟳ would come⟳,—that the ever-circling wheel of Fortune would perchance lift⟳ me up some day as it now crushed me down, kept me just wearily capable of continuing existence,—though it was merely a continuance and no more.”

“The vvheel of fortune turns inceſſantly round, and vvho can ſay vvithin himſelf I ſhall to day be uppermoſt.”

“As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune, a central concept in De Consolatione Philosophiae, the philosophical work⟳ which had laid foundation for medieval thought. […] Was his wheel rapidly spinning downward?”

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