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Noun: fate  feyt
  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
    "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, circs [Brit, informal]
Verb: fate  feyt
  1. Decree or designate beforehand
    "She was fated to become a great pianist";
    - destine, doom, designate

Sounds like: fat, phate, fete,

Derived forms: fates, fating, fated

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

Part of: occult, supernatural

Encyclopedia: Fate, Shulan