fate /feɪt/
1. an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
2. the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of 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"
synset: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
1. decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist"
synset: destine, fate, doom, designate
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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