Dictionary Definition
fate
Noun
1 an event (or a course of events) that will
inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny]
2 the ultimate agency that predetermines the
course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless
in the face of Destiny" [syn: Destiny]
3 your overall circumstances or condition in life
(including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune
may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of
the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her
portion" [syn: fortune,
destiny, luck, lot, circumstances, portion] v : decree or designate
beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn:
destine, doom, designate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From fata (neutral plural of fatum).Pronunciation
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- Rhymes with: -eɪt
Noun
- The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- Destiny (perhaps
connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).
- Accept your fate
- The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.
Translations
that which predetermines events
- Czech: osud
- Hebrew:
inevitable events
destiny
- Ancient Greek: μοῖρα
- Catalan: destí
- Danish: skæbne
- Dutch: lot
- Estonian: saatus
- Finnish: kohtalo
- French: destin
- German: Schicksal
- Greek: μοίρα
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: végzet
- Icelandic: örlög n p
- Italian: destino , sorte , fato
- Japanese: 運命 (うんめい, unmei), 宿命 (しゅくめい, shukumei)
- Korean: 숙명 (宿命, sugmyeong), 運命 (unmyeong)
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian: skjebne
- Old English: wyrd g Old English
- Polish: los , przeznaczenie
- Portuguese: fado , destino , sorte
- Russian: судьба (sud’bá) , участь (účast’)
- Serbian: sudba , sudbina
- Slovene: usoda
- Spanish: destino , azar
confidence
- Dutch: vertrouwen
- ttbc Bulgarian: съдба , орис , участ
- ttbc Interlingua: fato, destino, sorte
- ttbc Macedonian: к’смет
Anagrams
See also
Italian
Verb
Noun
fate- Plural of fata
Extensive Definition
Fate may refer to:
Computing
- Fate (1996 game), an unpublished computer game
- Fate (video game), a 2005 computer action RPG
- Fate: Gates of Dawn, a 1991 computer role-playing game
- FATE (Chrono Cross), a powerful entity in the video game Chrono Cross
Literature
- Fate (magazine), a magazine of paranormal phenomena
- Doctor Fate,
a succession of DC Comics sorcerer characters, first published in
1940
- Fate (comics), a character associated with Doctor Fate, or the eponymous comics series
- Fate/stay night, a Japanese visual novel and its adaptations
Music
- Fate (band), a Danish heavy metal band
- Fate (Dr. Dog album)
- Fate (Velvet Acid Christ album)
- Fate: The Best of Death, an album
- "Fate" (1953 song), a song from the musical Kismet
- "Fate" (Bleak song)
- "Fate", a song by Chaka Khan from What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
- Fates (Erik Mongrain album), or the title song
Other uses
- Fate, Texas, U.S.
- FATE (role-playing game system), Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment, a 2003 generic role-playing game
- "Fate" (In the Heat of the Night), an episode of the television series In the Heat of the Night
- Fate (writer), screenwriter whose credits include the documentary info wars
See also
- The Fates (disambiguation)
- Fatal (disambiguation)
- Fête, a French word meaning festival or holiday
fate in German: Fate
fate in Japanese: フェイト
fate in Slovak: Fate
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Friday,
Friday the thirteenth, Heaven, Paradise, Z, a better place, accidentality, act of God,
actuarial calculation, adventitiousness,
afterlife, afterworld, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, apodosis, appoint, appointed lot,
appropriate to, assign,
assign to, astral influences, astrology, bane, big end, bigger half,
bit, bite, book of fate, break, budget, casualness, catastrophe, ceasing, certainty, cessation, chance, chunk, circumstance, coda, collapse, commission, conclusion, consequence, constellation, consummation, contingent, crack of doom,
culmination,
cup, curtain, curtains, cut, deal, death, death knell, deathblow, decease, denouement, destinate, destination, destine, destiny, destruction, detail, determine, devote, dies funestis, disaster, disposition, dividend, dole, doom, downfall, earmark, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, equal share, eschatology, eternal home,
expiration, fatality, fatefulness, final solution,
final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, flukiness, force majeure,
foredoom, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, future, future state, gamble, goal, good fortune, good luck,
half, halver, hap, happenstance, happy chance,
heedless hap, helping,
home, how they fall, ides
of March, indefeasibility,
indeterminacy,
indeterminateness,
ineluctability,
inescapableness,
inevasibleness,
inevitability,
inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, interest, irrevocability, issue, izzard, karma, kismet, last, last breath, last gasp, last
things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, law of averages,
life, life after death,
life to come, lot, luck, make assignments, mark, mark off, mark out for,
measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, moira, necessity, nemesis, next world, omega, opportunity, ordain, otherworld, outcome, part, payoff, percentage, period, peroration, piece, planets, portion, portion off, postexistence, predetermination,
preordain, principle
of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness,
proportion, providence, quantum, quietus, quota, rake-off, random sample,
ration, relentlessness, reserve, resolution, resting place,
restrict, restrict to,
result, risk, ruin, run of luck, schedule, segment, serendipity, set, set apart, set aside, set off,
share, slice, small share, stake, stars, statistical probability,
stock, stoppage, stopping place,
sureness, swan song,
tag, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the beyond, the
breaks, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great
hereafter, the hereafter, the unknown, theory of probability,
unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness,
uncertainty,
uncertainty principle, uncontrollability,
undeflectability,
undoing, unlucky day,
unpreventability,
unyieldingness,
upshot, vis major,
weird, what bodes, what is
fated, whatever comes, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, windup, world to
come