• IPA: /feɪt/

fate

1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0105 ↗:

     Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

   Accept your fate.

4. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate#English|Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

• destiny
• doom
• fortune
• kismet
• lot
• necessity
• orlay
• predestination
• wyrd

• choice
• free will
• freedom

• amor fati (Amor fati)

• French: destin, destinée, sort
• German: Schicksal, Los, Geschick
• Italian: fato, sorte, destino
• Portuguese: destino, fado
• Russian: судьба́
• Spanish: destino, azar

• Italian: destino, fato
• Portuguese: sina
• Russian: судьба́

• French: destin, destinée
• German: Schicksal
• Italian: destino, sorte, fato
• Portuguese: fado, destino, sorte
• Russian: судьба́
• Spanish: destino, azar

fate (fates, present participle fating; past and past participle fated)

1. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

   The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

   • 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)

     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.

1. Any one of the Fates.
2. A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).