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fate English

Meaning fate meaning

What does fate mean?
Definitions in simple English

fate Noun

— Fate is a power that decides what will happen to us in the future.

fate

— noun (= destiny) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future — noun (= destiny) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman) we are helpless in the face of destiny — noun (= fortune, luck, lot, circumstances, portion) 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 (= destine, designate) decree or designate beforehand She was destined to become a great pianist

Synonyms fate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fate?

fate English » English

destiny fortune lot luck doom chance karma predestination portion kismet destine accident retribution predestine misfortune life horoscope fatality disaster death weird wealth star predetermine ill fate designate decease coincidence circumstances accidence year welfare vocation vile spawn unlucky trouble sort size sum safety rule ruin result regulation reason randomness random provision providence predetermination palm of the hand

Topics fate topics

What do people use fate to talk about?
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Destiny
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Cast lots
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Chance

Conjugation fate conjugation

How do you conjugate fate?

fate · verb

Examples fate examples

How do I use fate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Your fate is in my hands.
You are destined to this fate.
No one can escape their fate.
Tom sealed his fate by that.
A terrible fate awaited him.
I would rather kill myself than reconcile myself to my fate.
It's a perfect example of cruel fate.
It was her fate to die young.
He was reconciled to his fate.
He was ready to face his fate.
She had no choice but to accept her fate.
She was ready to face her fate.
She had to accept her fate.
She sighed over her unhappy fate.
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake.
Test pilots are constantly tempting fate.
It is no use quarreling with fate.
Our fate depends on your decisions.
I was forced to submit to my fate.
He cursed her fate.
She shared her husband's fate.

Movie subtitles

Specific to the fate of this woman, please.
The hour of fate.
Oh, cruel fate.
Christian Warriors could redeem in gold, and escape the horrible fate of slavery.
THIS LOVE OVERTOOK ME LIKE FATE!
His fate is ours.
Big Jim to his mine, our hero to his fate.
Then fate - it's always fate - played its little joke, and again the elements laughed, roared and thundered, but through it all our heroes soundly slumbered.
A peaceful calm settles upon the frozen world, and upon the soul of Diotima, who at last learns the fate of her beloved.
With stark indifference, Muffat is struck by a final twist of fate.
As for me, I will share the fate of my uncles.
To fate, that gave me back my title, my family, and my possessions.
But fate is fate.
It's fate, not bullets, that kill.
Algeria's fate is being decided here in Paris.
May God help you decide our fate.
Sometimes I envy the fate of colonist women.
Politics seals the fate of nations.
Too bitterly branded for life you became by fate broken-winged, inhibited, self-conscious.
A group of obscure people meet to decide the fate of Russia.
You know the fate of spies when they're caught.
How many more hours does my fate allow me?
Why does Europe's fate have to be decided in Vienna?
If you'd wanted something all your life and fate laid it right in your palm?
It is hard to forget your comrades' fate, I know. but our feminine guest is easily perturbed.
Everyone deserves the fate that's coming to them. Panic, death, things worse than death.
Any fate they meet is too good for them.
Fate then?
No destiny, no fate, no karma, no spells, no curses.
Duke Red will suffer the same fate.
There is no such thing as accident. It is Fate - mis-named.
Don't tempt fate.
Colonel. So you came back to share our fate.
I'm just a victim of fate.
Considering your distinction and age, it is surprising that fate has not introduced us before.
So if I'd been fired, it was for not cheating! Fate was against me. pushing me to become a true scoundrel.
John, it was fate.
Gentlemen, I shall now retire until fate has chosen the liberator.
It's fate, Hildy.

News and current affairs

Positioning himself as the candidate who represents a sharp break with today's unpopular politics is the only means to escape that fate.
Any thought that the anti-terror coalition will be able to bail out fast (as the West did when it abandoned Afghanistan to its fate after the Soviet withdrawal ten years ago) should be forgotten.
The fate of the Kyoto Protocol should be a lesson to all parties involved.
The civil war continued for another six years, followed by a bumpy political aftermath: Syrian intervention and expulsion (two decades later), as the Lebanese defined their own fate with the US exercising only background influence.
Let him go where we can't get at him, but with no guarantee of impunity if his actions or fate bring him to a place where justice can be done.
Although West Antarctica's fate is sealed, we may still be able to prevent the collapse of East Antarctica's marine ice sheet.
But it is not only the fate of Israel that has now shocked US policy, in particular, to its core.
Their fate and destiny have been inextricably linked, to the near demise of both at times.
Argentina's fate teaches a lot about development strategies.
Here, all eyes may be on Germany, but today it is really France that will play the central role in deciding the euro's fate.
The blood of WWII's victims calls for justice and fairness, but most of all it demands honesty about who and what caused their tragic fate.
Even if a Palestinian state committed to peaceful coexistence were created, down the road Israel may be unable to avoid the fate of Northern Ireland.
The shell of what remains continues to challenge the company's fate, notably in a Houston, Texas courtroom.
What matters now is whether Russia's economy will share Yukos's fate.
For now, EU governments' coordinated fiscal stimulus has deprived populists of their usual charge that the EU is indifferent to the fate of individuals.
The evidence today suggests that this pattern can be repeated when the United States departs Mesopotamia and leaves Iraqis to define their own fate.
Undocumented workers pick America's crops, clean Americans' houses, and serve Americans their food, but their fate simply does not matter to many US citizens.
American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.
Constant intimidation by religious extremists and political factions is the intellectual's fate in Iraq today.
The fate of peasants has a direct and important impact on that of kings.
Indeed, the decisions to be made by Asia on energy production and use will determine the fate of our planet's environment.
The US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.

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