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fate

The correct spelling is fate.

How to pronounce fate

/feɪt/
noun

IPA: /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. 1.The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  2. 2.The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  3. 3.An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
  4. 4.Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  5. 5.Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

verb

  1. 1.To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

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