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1. An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
   - destiny, kismet
    
2. The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
   "we are helpless in the face of fate";
   - destiny
    
3. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
   "deserved a better fate";
   - fortune, destiny, luck, lot, circumstances, portion

1. Decree or designate beforehand
   "She was fated to become a great pianist";
   - destine, doom, designate

Sounds like: fat, phate, fete, fê

Derived forms: fating, fated, fates

Type of: causal agency, causal agent, cause, condition, happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, ordain

Part of: occult, supernatural

Encyclopedia: Fate, Shulan Fate Fate, Texas Fate, TX