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fate

noun

1 I was ready for whatever fate had in store for me:

destiny, providence, God's will, nemesis, kismet, astral influence, the stars, what is written in the stars, one's lot in life;

predestination, predetermination;

chance, luck, serendipity, fortuity, fortune, hazard, Lady Luck, Dame Fortune;

Hinduism & Buddhism karma;

archaic dole, cup, heritage.

2 I didn't want to put my fate in someone else's hands:

future, destiny, outcome, issue, upshot, end, lot, due;

archaic doom, dole.

3 the authorities warned that a similar fate would befall other convicted killers:

death, demise, end, destruction, doom;

ruin, downfall, undoing, finish, disaster, catastrophe;

retribution, sentence.

4 (the Fates) the Fates might decide that it was his time to die:

the weird sisters;

Roman Mythology the Parcae;

Greek Mythology the Moirai;

Scandinavian Mythology the Norns.

verb

(be fated)

his daughter was fated to face the same problem:

be predestined, be preordained, be foreordained, be destined, be meant, be doomed, be foredoomed, be cursed, be damned;

be sure, be certain, be bound, be guaranteed;

be inevitable, be inescapable, be ineluctable.

fate Oxford Dictionary of English