fate
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
Noun 4 meanings
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
“Accept your fate.”
Verb 1 meaning
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
“The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.”
Etymology
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
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FATE at a glance
FATE has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (F 4 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,805 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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