fate

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

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