[
US
/ˈfeɪt/
]
[ UK /fˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪt/ ]
NOUN
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the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
we are helpless in the face of destiny - an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot
success that was her portion
deserved a better fate
the luck of the Irish
whatever my fortune may be
a victim of circumstances
VERB
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decree or designate beforehand
She was destined to become a great pianist
How To Use fate In A Sentence
- Griselde, once again, accepted her fate and protested her love for the marquis, solely requesting her dignity upon exodus from the palace.
- The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
- Or should I just accept the fact that fate has dealt me a card from the bottom of the deck and move on?
- A common goal of population genetic investigations is to explain the fate of genetic polymorphism within a species.
- •If you've been following the fate of Men in Trees (ABC, 10 ET/PT), it won't surprise you to learn this now-canceled series — always an ABC afterthought — is being dropped into the network's summer schedule to complete its run. Critic's Corner Wednesday
- On this occasion, Campobasso gave his opinion, couched in the apologue of the Traveller, the Adder, and the Fox; and reminded the Duke of the advice which Reynard gave to the man, that he should crush his mortal enemy, now that chance had placed his fate at his disposal. Quentin Durward
- The anchor was raised some years ago near Boatstrand and has now been mounted on the pier with an appropriate plaque as a memorial to its ill-fated captain and crew.
- Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
- The extracts obtained were prefiltered through glass wool and sodium sulfate anhydride and filtered by column chromatography (clean-up performed using sodium sulfate anhydride and Celite 545).
- Before long, fate delivered him to a vernissage where Régine Chassagne was singing.