fate
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3.4
- noun
- /feɪt/
:
destino
- Rome was perhaps too quick to judge the fate of this defeated power.
- one's own fate
- meet the same fate
- suffer the same fate
A great, lucid decisiveness about my fate surged up inside me.
- A great, lucid decisiveness about my fate surged up inside me.
- And then they they're just failures and that's what their fate is, Right?
- And I suspect that our fate or maybe our children's fate will be trickier.
- And one of them relates to the fate of the downwinders.
- And that so that mechanical physical force shapes the fate of the cell as well.
Examples
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I lost everything and I didn't want you to suffer the same sad fate.
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This is his fate for the rest of eternity.
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What is going to be the fate of our sun?
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You concerned about the fate of your soul?
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But sometimes, those who accept their fate have an easier time...
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But many an empty cottage met the same fate as the other public buildings.
Fiction book (1991) -
They have more power to change the fate of animals than most states do.
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Allan Bloom has been concerned about the fate of the university for many years.
Academic text (1990) -
Despite all this, Daphne was talking about the fate of my father's business empire.
Fiction book (1991) -
For better or worse, fate has brought us together.
Synonyms
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1.9
The conditions someone or something is in at a time
632
3.5
The events that will happen to a person, often seen as controlled by fate
273
3.5
A person's situation in life often seen as fate
190
3.4
The general state of a person's life
30
7.5
What happens to someone in life
1
2.2
The situation that affects a person's life, especially their money and home
1
1.4
The situation that affects how people live or work
Antonyms
Idioms
1
6.8
Leave people alone without help, often in danger, so events decide what happens to them
Compounds
- Jargon
A line on the palm that palm readers check to guess a person's future success
How Fortunate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fate comes from the Latin fatum, meaning 'that which is spoken', from fari 'to speak'. Long ago people thought the gods 'spoke' a person's life for them, so fate now means the life and events that happen to someone.