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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bound, destinedadjective

    headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'

    "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"

  2. bound(p), destinedadjective

    (usually followed by `to') governed by fate

    "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"

Wiktionary

  1. destinedadjective

    Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.

    He is sure he is destined for fame.

ChatGPT

  1. destined

    Destined refers to the events or outcomes that are determined or influenced by fate or a predetermined set of results; meant or likely to occur in a particular way or to have a specific role or purpose. It can also refer to a person who is heading towards a particular place or moving in a specific direction.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Destined

    of Destine

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of destined in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of destined in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of destined in a Sentence

  1. Giuseppe Mazzini:

    O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

  2. Émile Durkheim:

    It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

  3. Pat McDonough:

    I think it's nonsense, the overall policy which is coming out of the White House -- it is coming out of President Obama's philosophy of social engineering on steroids -- we're going to make everybody better if we move everyone to Kingsville. … It’s a failure and is destined to fail.

  4. The Omani shed:

    All the philosophies in the universe can be defined by words. Thus, if you simply take all the words and reshuffle them arbitrarily enough times, you’re destined to hit upon at least a few great philosophies ultimately.

  5. Sunni Muslims.The Pope:

    In order to prevent conflicts and build peace, it is essential that we spare no effort in eliminating situations of poverty and exploitation where extremism more easily takes root, and in blocking the flow of money and weapons destined to those who provoke violence.

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