Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a fortunate manner: by good fortune; luckily; happily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a fortunate manner.
  • adverb It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb by good fortune

Etymologies

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fortunate +‎ -ly

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