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name
An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A female given name from English.
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noun
That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: fate, lot, orlay, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd
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noun
That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
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noun
One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
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noun
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: fate
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noun
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fate
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Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Narrower terms: inevitable, karma, kismet, kismat, predestination, doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world
noun
the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fate
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Broader terms: causal agent, cause, causal agency
noun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fortune, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: condition
Narrower terms: good fortune, luckiness, good luck, providence, misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck, failure
History
From the noun destiny since the 1970s.
From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
