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Definition of Small fortune
1. Noun. A large sum of money. "He made a small fortune in the commodities market"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Fortune
Literary usage of Small fortune
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918: New York, 1833-1918 by Frank Michael O'Brien (1918)
"Ben Day's Brother-in-Law Retires with a small fortune. Beaches, father and sons,
owned the Sun ••- throughout the Mexican War, a period notable for the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Biography: Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All by Richard Alfred Davenport (1846)
"Pope, in his MOM) Essays, has c« orated the good deeds of this eel character.
With hie small fortune, how ever, Kyrie could not solely have ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"... but reduced to a small fortune, had declined all the splendour of an old house,
and sunk into the condition of the middle men of the country, ..."
4. Gold Fields of the Klondike: And the Wonders of Alaska by Ernest Ingersoll (1897)
"... City—Some Strange Things About the Mail Service—A small fortune Spent in
Delivering Each Mail Bag—Bottles of Gold the Legal Tender—The Canadian Mounted ..."
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