name
Meaning 1
Any one of the Fates.
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name
Any one of the Fates.
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name
A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).
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noun
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: destiny, natural order
Antonyms: free will
noun
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: destiny
Antonyms: accident, chance
noun
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: doom, portion, wyrd
Antonyms: fortune, luck
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
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Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: embryology, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: developmental pathway
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verb
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
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Usage: transitive
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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: destiny
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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: destiny
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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, destiny, 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
verb
decree or designate beforehand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: destine, doom, designate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ordain
History
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
Across languages
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