Noun

• S: (n) fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion (your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)) "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
• S: (n) luck, fortune, chance, hazard (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another) "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
• S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• W: (v) chance [Related to: chance] (be the case by chance) "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
• W: (v) hazard [Related to: hazard] (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation) "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
• S: (n) luck, fortune (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome) "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"