Fate Definition
fāt
fated, fating
noun
The power or agency supposed to determine the outcome of events before they occur; destiny.
Webster's New World
Something inevitable, supposedly determined by this power.
Webster's New World
What happens or has happened to a person or entity; lot; fortune.
Webster's New World
Final outcome.
Webster's New World
Death; destruction; doom.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).
Wiktionary
Any one of the Fates.
Wiktionary
verb
fated
To destine.
Webster's New World
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
Wiktionary
Origin of Fate
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Middle English from Old French fat from Latin fātum prophecy, doom from neuter past participle of fārī to speak bhā-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Latin fata (“prediction”) (neutral plural of fatum), fatus 'spoken', fari (“to speak”).
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