what happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death or defeat: decide your fate We want to decide our own fate. His fate is now in the hands of the jury. suffer a fate The disciples were terrified that they would suffer the same fate as Jesus.

Examples of fate in a Sentence Noun … the fate of our species is bound up with those of countless others, with which we share a habitat that we cannot long dominate … John Gray, Times Literary Supplement, 11 Sept. 1992 So what went wrong? I ask Syd again, glancing ahead to the inevitable end.