wheel of Fortune

wheel of Fortune

See also: wheel of fortune and Wheel of Fortune

English

Alternative forms

• wheel of fortune, Wheel of Fortune

Proper noun

wheel of Fortune

1. (mythology, philosophy) The mythological wheel whose turns, which are random, determine men’s fortunes.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     I hold the Fates bound faſt in yron chaines,
     And with my hand turne Fortunes wheel about,
     And ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare,
     Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.

   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, OCLC 1085228267, page 8:

     I was young enough not to part with hope too easily; — the vague idea I had that my turn would come, — that the ever-circling wheel of Fortune would perchance lift me up some day as it now crushed me down, […]

2. A particular card in a tarot deck.

Usage notes

• Used with a determiner, especially “the”.

Translations

Tarot card

Catalan: la roda de la fortuna f Chinese: Mandarin: 命運之輪／命运之轮 (mìngyùn zhī lún) Czech: kolo štěstí n Dutch: rad van fortuin n Finnish: kohtalonpyörä, onnenpyörä (fi) French: la roue de fortune f German: Rad des Schicksals n Hungarian: szerencsekerék (hu) Italian: la ruota della fortuna f Japanese: 運命の輪 (ummei no wa) Korean: 운명의 수레바퀴 (unmyeong'ui surebakwi) Latin: rota fortunae f Lithuanian: laimės ratas Polish: koło fortuny n Portuguese: a Roda da Fortuna f Romanian: roata norocului (ro) f Russian: колесо́ форту́ны (ru) n (kolesó fortúny) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: kolo sreće Slovak: koleso šťastia Spanish: la rueda de la fortuna f Swedish: lyckans hjul n, lyckohjul (sv) n Tagalog: gulong ng kapalaran

Further reading

• wheel of Fortune on Wikipedia.Wikipedia