Uk English Meaning of fate

fate

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Definitions and Meaning of fate in English

Wordnet

fate (n)

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

Wordnet

fate (v)

decree or designate beforehand

Webster

fate (n.)

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

FAQs About the word fate

fate

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future, the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personifi

destiny,chance,circumstance,doom,fortune,portion,accident,casualty,consequence,development

basis,because,consideration,factor,occasion,reason,antecedent,base,causation,determinant

fat-brained => fat-brained, fatback => Backfat, fatalness => fatality, fatally => fatally, fatality rate => Fatality rate,