something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot

It is always his fate to be left behind.

the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time

Fate decreed that they would never meet again.

that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny

Death is our ineluctable fate.

a prophetic declaration of what must be

The oracle pronounced their fate.

death, destruction, or ruin.

the Fates, Classical Mythology . the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.

to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive)

a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.

noun

break , chance , circumstance , consequence , cup * , destination , destiny , divine will , doom , effect , end , ending , fortune , future , handwriting on the wall , horoscope , inescapableness , issue , karma , kismet , lot , luck , moirai , nemesis , outcome , portion , predestination , providence , stars , termination , upshot , wheel of fortune *notes:fate is an event or a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future or the supposed force or power that predetermines events while a fete is an elaborate , usually outdoor , party or festival , disaster , moira , predetermination , quirk , result

verb

destine , foreordain , predestinate , predestine , predetermine , preordain , doom , foredoom