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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:: 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 |