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The correct spelling is fate.
How to pronounce fate
/feɪt/
nounIPA: /feɪt/
Say it like: Fat-e
The correct spelling is fate. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. For example: "Accept your fate."
Usage Examples
“Accept your fate.”
“The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- 2.The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- 3.An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- 4.Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- 5.Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
verb
- 1.To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
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