fatenoun
uk/feɪt/us/feɪt/B2 [ C usually singular ] what happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death or defeat:
We want to decide our own fate.
His fate is now in the hands of the jury.
The disciples were terrified that they would suffer/meet the same fate as Jesus.
B2 [ U ] a power that some people believe causes and controls all events, so that you cannot change or control the way things will happen:
When we met again by chance in Cairo, I felt it must be fate.
Fate has brought us together.
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- But for a cruel twist of fate, he could now be running his own business.
- He showed a stoic resignation towards his fate.
- It is somehow fixed in my mind that my fate and that woman's are intertwined.
- By an odd quirk of fate, we ended up on the same train.
- The fates of both countries seem somehow entwined.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- automatically
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- doom
- fated
- implacable
- inalienable
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- seal sb's fate idiom
- unstoppable
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Idiom(s)
a fate worse than death
the Fates