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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fate /feɪt/USA pronunciation n. - something that unavoidably happens to a person;
one's fortune or lot:[countable* usually singular]The judge decided her fate. - the power by which events are thought to be decided;
destiny:[uncountable]By a strange twist of fate, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826. - ultimate outcome;
final course or state:[countable]the fate of a political campaign. - death, destruction, or ruin:[uncountable]They met their fate on the battlefield.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fate (fāt),USA pronunciation n., v., fat•ed, fat•ing. n. - something that unavoidably befalls a person;
fortune;
lot:It is always his fate to be left behind. - the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed;
the decreed cause of events;
time:Fate decreed that they would never meet again. - that which is inevitably predetermined;
destiny:Death is our ineluctable fate. - a prophetic declaration of what must be:The oracle pronounced their fate.
- death, destruction, or ruin.
- Mythology the Fates, [Class. Myth.]the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.
v.t. - to predetermine, as by the decree of fate;
destine (used in the passive):a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.
- Latin fātum utterance, decree of fate, destiny, origin, originally neuter of fātus, past participle of fārī to speak
- Middle English 1325–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged karma, kismet; chance, luck. Fate, destiny, doom refer to the idea of a fortune, usually adverse, that is predetermined and inescapable. The three words are frequently interchangeable. Fate stresses the irrationality and impersonal character of events:It was Napoleon's fate to be exiled.The word is often lightly used, however:It was my fate to meet her that very afternoon.Destiny emphasizes the idea of an unalterable course of events, and is often used of a propitious fortune:It was his destiny to save his nation.Doom esp. applies to the final ending, always unhappy or terrible, brought about by destiny or fate:He met his doom bravely.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged foreordain, preordain.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Fates /feɪts/ pl n - the three goddesses who control the destinies of the lives of man, which are likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out, and at last cut
See Atropos, Clotho, Lachesis - the Norns
See Norn1
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fate /feɪt/ n - the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events
- the inevitable fortune that befalls a person or thing; destiny
- the end or final result
- a calamitous or unfavourable outcome or result; death, destruction, or downfall
vb - (tr; usually passive) to predetermine; doom: he was fated to lose the game
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin fātum oracular utterance, from fārī to speak |