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fate   (TTS Sound)

The noun fate has 3 senses

• destiny, fate -- (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)


• destiny, fate -- (the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny")


• fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion -- (your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion")

The verb fate has 1 sense

• destine, fate, doom, designate -- (decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist")