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fate
/feɪt/
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What does fate mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (7)
noun
- 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
verb
- To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
proper noun
- Any one of the Fates.
- A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).
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IPA pronunciation
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One has to imagine, as well as one may, the fate of those batteries towards Esher, waiting so tensely in the twilight.
She stood, with Toto in her arms, watching the sad fate of her comrades and thinking it would soon be her turn.
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They could not guess my whereabouts or my fate, for none on all Barsoom even dream of such a place as this.
Some part of the woods needed sweeping, perhaps, and he merely indicated a broom in a tone properly indifferent to its fate.
Perhaps some unknown woman, far beneath herself in culture, was by the most subtle of lures sealing his fate this very instant.