Fate
- Proper noun. Any one of the Fates.
- Proper noun. A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).
- Noun. The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- Noun. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- Noun. Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).
- Noun. The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.
- Verb. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
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