Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chance occurrence or event.
- noun The quality or condition of being fortuitous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Accident; chance; casualty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Accident; chance; casualty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
fortuitous - noun countable A fortuitous
event ; anaccident
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
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Examples
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Locals may recall his collaboration with composer John Adams for the San Francisco Opera production of Doctor Atomic (which, in an instance of festival fortuity, is documented in Jon Else's Wonders Are Many).
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Dam you both seem to have some intestinal fortuity to maybe stand up and get the help needed to be able to deal in the real world.
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From the Telegraph story: “Bordeaux winegrowers have a habit of throwing in superlatives about vintages and the sceptical may question the fortuity of such a great year given that Bordeaux sales have been falling in the wake of the 2005 boom.”
Bordeaux 09, Sean Connery, Binny’s, uprooting – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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Thanks to the central administration's backing, and the fortuity of events, we have a chance to do some major hiring while making other transformational changes.
Discourse.net: Ten Reasons Why You Should Teach Here -- And Three Why You Shouldn't (v. 3.0) 2009
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They provide up close accounts of the bombings and their aftermath and illustrate how survival often hinged on the fortuity of just where they were at the time of the blast.
Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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If, according to some, Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, then shouldn't Friday the 7th (because 7 has been identified by many as a lucky number) be full of fortuity and good things?
Friday the 7th marshallpayne1 2009
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They provide up close accounts of the bombings and their aftermath and illustrate how survival often hinged on the fortuity of just where they were at the time of the blast.
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Whether this model came about by malicious design or fortuity, the result is legal way to prevent consumers from exercising consumer choice and punishing companies for poor service.
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Only fortuity and strength had saved the few like Van Hast.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Thanks to fountains of chai, insomnia, neurosis, random bursts of manic energy, well wishes from the well wishers, angels of serendipity, and surreal twist of fortuity, "The Domestic Crusaders" was born and finished as a present to myself on my 23rd birthday.
Wajahat Ali: 'The Domestic Crusaders': Making History With Muslim American Theater 2009
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