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fate

/feɪt/noun, verb1 syllable

Fate means: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).

Synonyms for fate21

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

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

noun, as in the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events

verb, as in decree or designate beforehand

destine, doom, designate

also used for fate

natural order, wyrd, developmental pathway, chance, destin, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, orlay, predestination, predestiny

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What does fate mean?4

noun

1

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)“whatever my fortune may be”

2

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

3

the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events“we are helpless in the face of destiny”

verb

1

decree or designate beforehand“She was destined to become a great pianist”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with fate?44

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Fate in a sentence

  • It's about fate, a calling, the longing for a better world.AlanF_US
  • She didn't believe in fate, but insisted that their meeting had to be predetermined.swolesuki
  • Although our universe is still young, theorists are busy exploring its ultimate fate.CM
  • I walked without hope, already resigned to the certain fate of being abandoned forever.Mithridates
  • It was his fate to suffer this, too.Nylez
  • Do we shape our own destiny, or does fate guide us?Igider
  • On the way, he met many people who shared the same fate.rul
  • A proponent of passivism, he tended to let events unfold as fate willed.Leglaine

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of fate

as a noun

plural
fates

as a verb

past tense
fated
present participle
fating
third-person singular
fates
past participle
fated