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fate

Pronunciation: /feɪt/

The English word “fate” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
  4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  5. The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
  6. The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

verb

  1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

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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