Is it your fate to win a fortune in the lottery and retire young? Better hope so. Fate is like destiny, so that means winning the lottery would be an inevitable outcome.
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Noun
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Noun
the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"
Noun
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"
Verb
decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist"
n.
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed;
the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by
which all existence is determined and conditioned.
n.
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined
event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
n.
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen
and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events;
fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to
struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
n.
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes
called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the
course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff,
a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Fate
Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate.
Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments.2.
The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown.
The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.3.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams.4.
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Usage Examples
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Other Usage ExamplesAmerican policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
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