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- English Word Fortissimo Definition Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.
- English Word Fortition Definition Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
- English Word Fortitude Definition Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
- English Word Fortitude Definition That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
- English Word Fortitudinous Definition Having fortitude; courageous.
- English Word Fortlet Definition A little fort.
- English Word Fortnight Definition The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
- English Word Fortnightly Definition Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
- English Word Fortnightly Definition Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.
- English Word Fortread Definition To tread down; to trample upon.
- English Word Fortress Definition A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
- English Word Fortress Definition To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
- English Word Fortresses Definition of Fortress
- English Word Fortuitous Definition Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
- English Word Fortuitous Definition Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
- English Word Fortuity Definition Accident; chance; casualty.
- English Word Fortunate Definition Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.
- English Word Fortunate Definition Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.
- English Word Fortunately Definition In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.
- English Word Fortunateness Definition The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.
- English Word Fortune Definition The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
- English Word Fortune Definition That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
- English Word Fortune Definition That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
- English Word Fortune Definition Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
- English Word Fortune Definition To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
- English Word Fortune Definition To provide with a fortune.
- English Word Fortune Definition To presage; to tell the fortune of.
- English Word Fortune Definition To fall out; to happen.
- English Word Fortuneless Definition Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.
- English Word Fortunize Definition To regulate the fortune of; to make happy.