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

[ Syn: fortune , destiny , fate , lot , circumstances , portion ]

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

[ Syn: fortune , chance , hazard ]

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

[ Syn: fortune ]