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    fate
    [fāt]
    noun
    fate (noun) · fates (plural noun) · Fates (plural noun) · the Fates (plural noun)
    1. the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power:
      "fate decided his course for him" · "his injury is a cruel twist of fate"
      • the course of someone's life, or the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control:
        "he suffered the same fate as his companion"
      • the inescapable death of a person:
        "the guards led her to her fate"
    2. greek mythology
      roman mythology
      (the Fates)
      three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Also called Moirai and Parcae
      • (the Fates)
        another term for Norns
    verb
    (be fated)
    fate (verb) · fates (third person present) · fated (past tense) · fated (past participle) · fating (present participle)
    1. be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way:
      "the regime was fated to end badly"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.
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    noun
    1. the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power:
      destiny
      providence
      nemesis
      kismet
      predestination
      predetermination
      chance
      luck
      serendipity
      fortuity
      fortune
      hazard
      Lady Luck
      karma
      dole
      cup
      heritage
      God's will
      astral influence
      the stars
      what is written in the stars
      one's lot in life
      Dame Fortune
    2. three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Also called
      Moirai
      and
      Parcae
      the weird sisters
      the Parcae
      the Moirai
      the Norns
      verb
      1. be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way:
        be damned
        be sure
        be predestined
        be preordained
        be foreordained
        be destined
        be meant
        be doomed
        be foredoomed
        be cursed
        be certain
        be bound
        be guaranteed
        be inevitable
        be inescapable
        be ineluctable
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