fortune
gb/fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/ us/fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
B1
อังกฤษ
~ 2800
ความหมาย
0 ความหมาย
คำนาม
B1
entity
1
A very large sum of money
A very large amount of money or valuable things.
รูปแบบการใช้:
to make [a] fortune
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse 'fortune' with 'opportunity' due to the phrase 'good fortune'. In this sense, it refers only to wealth.
คำพ้องความหมาย
wealth (More general term for abundance of valuable resources, not necessarily money alone.)
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riches (Often more literary or dramatic in tone than 'fortune'.)
คำตรงข้าม
poverty (The state of having little or no money or resources.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
make a fortune
|spend a fortune
|inherit a fortune
|cost a fortune
หัวข้อ
business
|wealth
|daily life
|finance
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- She made a fortune by investing in real estate.
- The necklace must be worth a fortune.
- He inherited a fortune from his grandmother.
- They spent a fortune on their wedding.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- He made a fortune in business.
- This car costs a fortune.
- She got a fortune from her uncle.
- They spent a fortune on the house.
คำนาม
B2
entity
2
Luck or chance in events
Luck or chance that decides what happens to someone.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners may confuse this meaning with 'wealth'; here, it refers to chance, not money.
คำพ้องความหมาย
luck (More casual and common term for chance events.)
คำตรงข้าม
misfortune (Bad luck; chance events with negative outcomes.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
good fortune
|bad fortune
|by fortune
หัวข้อ
daily life
|emotions
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- By good fortune, we arrived just before it started raining.
- They met by sheer fortune.
- Fortune smiled on them during their travels.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- By good fortune, we found the lost dog.
- He had the fortune to meet her.
- Fortune was with us today.
คำนาม
B2
entity
3
A person's future or destiny
What will happen to someone in the future.
คำพ้องความหมาย
fate (Implies inevitability and predetermination more strongly than 'fortune'.)
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destiny (Often has a more poetic or grand connotation than 'fortune'.)
คำตรงข้าม
free will (The ability to choose one's actions regardless of destiny.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
tell someone's fortune
|seek your fortune
หัวข้อ
daily life
|philosophy
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- He went to the city to seek his fortune.
- The old woman claimed she could tell your fortune.
- Her fortune changed after she got the new job.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- She can tell your fortune.
- He left home to find his fortune.
- His fortune changed after the trip.
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รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
fortune
IPA
GB/fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
US/fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
for - tune (2 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (for)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: fortune
- Plural: fortune, fortunes
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
fortunes
noun
Core family
fortunate
adjective B1
fortunately
adverb B1
Negative and opposite forms
วลีและสำนวน
cost a fortune
1/kˈɔst ə fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
fixed phrase
Be very expensive
To be very expensive and need a lot of money.
ตัวอย่าง
- That designer dress must have cost a fortune.
- It cost us a fortune to repair the car.
fortune smiles on [someone]
1/fˈɔɹt͡ʃun smˈaɪlz ˈɔn sˈʌmwˌʌn/
idiom
literary
Receive good luck unexpectedly
To have good luck happen to you without planning it.
ตัวอย่าง
- Fortune smiled on him when he found the missing keys.
- Fortune smiled on the team as they won without effort.
make a fortune
1/mˈeɪk ə fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
fixed phrase
Earn a lot of money
To get a lot of money, usually quickly or easily.
ตัวอย่าง
- She made a fortune selling handmade jewelry online.
- He hopes to make a fortune in the stock market.
seek your fortune
1/sˈik jˈʊɹ fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
fixed phrase
Try to get rich or successful
To go somewhere new to try to become rich or successful.
ตัวอย่าง
- Many young people went west to seek their fortunes.
- He left his hometown to seek his fortune in the big city.
tell someone's fortune
1/tˈɛl sˈʌmwˌʌnz fˈɔɹt͡ʃun/
fixed phrase
Predict someone's future events
To say what will happen to someone in the future, often using special cards or other methods.
ตัวอย่าง
- She told my fortune using tarot cards.
- They visited a woman who could tell their fortunes.