fate
Meaning
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- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
- The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
- The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
Synonyms
ill fate
palm of the hand
karma effects
inevitable retribution
one’s future
evil creature
vile spawn
as wind
inevitable necessity
necessary consequence
accidental event
size sum
amount gear worm gear
destinity
course of life
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/feɪt/
Etymology
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.
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