Fortune can mean a large amount of money or property, or it can mean luck—especially the kind that feels controlled by fate. People often talk about good fortune and bad fortune.
From Latin “fortuna,” the goddess of luck and chance, related to “fors” (chance). The idea blended money, fate, and opportunity in one powerful concept.
It’s fascinating that the same word covers both huge wealth and blind luck, as if getting rich is never just hard work. Fortune cookies play on that ancient idea: your future might be hiding in a random twist of chance.
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