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fate

//feɪt//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for fate

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
fates

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
fate
past (v2)
fated
past participle (v3)
fated
present participle
fating
3rd person singular
fates

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  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.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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

    • Before they met, Rebecca Guberman and Jennifer Jako were both certain they were fated to be alone.
    • The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
    • At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3061

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

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Synonyms

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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