What does Fate mean?

Definitions for Fate
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. destiny, fatenoun

    an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

  2. destiny, fatenoun

    the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

    "we are helpless in the face of destiny"

  3. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionverb

    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"

  4. destine, fate, doom, designateverb

    decree or designate beforehand

    "She was destined to become a great pianist"

Wiktionary

  1. fatenoun

    The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

  2. fatenoun

    The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

  3. fatenoun

    Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).

    Accept your fate.

  4. fatenoun

    The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.

  5. fateverb

    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.

  6. Fatenoun

    Any one of the Fates.

  7. Fatenoun

    A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).

  8. Etymology: From fata 'prediction' (neutral plural of fatum), fatus 'spoken', fari 'to speak'.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FATEnoun

    Etymology: fatum, Latin.

    Necessity or chance
    Approach not me; and what I will is fate. John Milton.

    There is a necessity in fate
    Why still the brave bold man is fortunate. Dryden.

    You must obey me soon or late;
    Why will you vainly struggle with your fate! Dryden.

    When empire in its childhood first appears,
    A watchful fate o’ersees its rising years. Dryden.

    Random chance, or wilful fate,
    Guides the shaft from Cupid’s bow. Ambrose Philips.

    Tell me what fates attend the duke of Suffolk?
    By water shall he die, and take his end. William Shakespeare.

    Viewing a neighbouring hill, whose top of late
    A chapel crown’d, ’till in the common fate
    Th’ adjoining abbey fell. John Denham.

    Looking, he feeds alone his famish’d eyes;
    Feeds ling’ring death, but looking not he dies;
    Yet still he chose the longest way to fate,
    Wasting at once his life and his estate. Dryden.

    Courage uncertain dangers may abate;
    But who can bear th’ approach of certain fate! Dryden.

    The whizzing arrow sings,
    And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. Alexander Pope.

    With full force his deadly bow he bent,
    And feather’d fates among the mules and sumpters sent. Dry.

Wikipedia

  1. fate

    Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin fatum "decree, prediction, destiny, fate"), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual.

ChatGPT

  1. fate

    Fate is the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. It is the predetermination or inevitable outcome of certain events or circumstances in life, often used in the context of unavoidable destiny or doom.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fatenoun

    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

  2. Fatenoun

    appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death

  3. Fatenoun

    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

  4. Fatenoun

    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

Wikidata

  1. FATE

    FATE, Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment, is a generic role-playing game system based on the FUDGE gaming system. It has no fixed setting, traits, or genre and is almost entirely customizable. It is designed to offer the least possible obstruction to role-playing by assuming that players do not want to make large amounts of dice rolls. FATE was written by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue. FATE gained a large number of adherents both for its high level of support, which is unusual for a free game, and for the numerous innovative gaming mechanics.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fate

    fāt, n. inevitable destiny or necessity: appointed lot: ill-fortune: doom: final issue: (pl.) the three goddesses of fate, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who determined the birth, life, and death of men—the Fatal Sisters.—adj. Fāt′al, belonging to or appointed by fate: causing ruin or death: mortal: calamitous.—ns. Fāt′alism, the doctrine that all events are subject to fate, and happen by unavoidable necessity; Fāt′alist, one who believes in fatalism.—adj. Fāt′alistic, belonging to or partaking of fatalism.—n. Fatal′ity, the state of being fatal or unavoidable: the decree of fate: fixed tendency to disaster or death: mortality: a fatal occurrence.—adv. Fāt′ally.—adjs. Fāt′ed, doomed: destined: (Shak.) invested with the power of destiny: (Dryden) enchanted; Fate′ful, charged with fate.—adv. Fate′fully.—n. Fate′fulness. [L. fatum, a prediction—fatus, spoken—fāri, to speak.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FATE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fate is ranked #23647 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fate surname appeared 1,072 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fate.

    74.4% or 798 total occurrences were White.
    21.8% or 234 total occurrences were Black.
    1.5% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.4% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Fate' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4106

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Fate' in Nouns Frequency: #1661

Anagrams for Fate »

  1. feat

  2. feat.

  3. feta

  4. EFTA

  5. TAFE

  6. atef

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Fate in a Sentence

  1. H.L. Mencken:

    Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  2. Heraclitus:

    Man's character is his fate.

  3. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

    I hope the change in the position of our Western colleagues, which has unfortunately only come about as the result of terrible acts of terror, will spread to other Western partners. That the stance that the real battle with Islamic State can only be resolved once the fate of Assad is clear, that this position will put to one side, in my opinion there can now be no doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any preconditions in order to unite in the battle against so-called Islamic State terrorists.

  4. John Cantlie:

    You're thinking, 'He's only doing this because he's a prisoner. He's got a gun at his head, and he's being forced to do this.' Right? Well, it's true. I am a prisoner. That I cannot deny, but seeing as I've been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of the Islamic State, I have nothing to lose.

  5. Conan Gray:

    It is crucial to the fate of our future that we get out and vote, our voices need to be heard, and together they will be ! Right now, more than ever, we need to fight for the lives of the people we love, and voting is just one of the extremely impactful ways we can do that.

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