"make a fortune" meaning in English

See make a fortune in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: makes a fortune [present, singular, third-person], making a fortune [participle, present], made a fortune [participle, past], made a fortune [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> a fortune}} make a fortune (third-person singular simple present makes a fortune, present participle making a fortune, simple past and past participle made a fortune)
  1. To make a significant amount of money; to become wealthy; to get rich. Synonyms: make a mint, make a bundle, coin it, rake it in Translations (make a significant amount of money): riempirsi le tasche (Italian), farsi la villa (Italian), fare cassa (Italian)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a fortune"
      },
      "expansion": "make a fortune (third-person singular simple present makes a fortune, present participle making a fortune, simple past and past participle made a fortune)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a significant amount of money; to become wealthy; to get rich."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_a_fortune-en-verb-JHouruP9",
      "links": [
        [
          "significant",
          "significant"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "wealthy",
          "wealthy"
        ],
        [
          "rich",
          "rich"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "make a mint"
        },
        {
          "word": "make a bundle"
        },
        {
          "word": "coin it"
        },
        {
          "word": "rake it in"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make a significant amount of money",
          "word": "riempirsi le tasche"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make a significant amount of money",
          "word": "farsi la villa"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make a significant amount of money",
          "word": "fare cassa"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a fortune"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fortune",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a fortune"
      },
      "expansion": "make a fortune (third-person singular simple present makes a fortune, present participle making a fortune, simple past and past participle made a fortune)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Italian translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a significant amount of money; to become wealthy; to get rich."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "significant",
          "significant"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "wealthy",
          "wealthy"
        ],
        [
          "rich",
          "rich"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "make a mint"
        },
        {
          "word": "make a bundle"
        },
        {
          "word": "coin it"
        },
        {
          "word": "rake it in"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make a significant amount of money",
      "word": "riempirsi le tasche"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make a significant amount of money",
      "word": "farsi la villa"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make a significant amount of money",
      "word": "fare cassa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a fortune"
}

Download raw JSONL data for make a fortune meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.