fate
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/icons/point.icon FATE, DESTINY, LOT, PORTION, DOOM mean a predetermined state or end.
FATE implies an inevitable and usually an adverse outcome.
e.g. the fate of the submarine is unknown
DESTINY implies something foreordained and often suggests a great or noble course or end.
e.g. the country's destiny to be a model of liberty to the world
LOT and PORTION imply a distribution by fate or destiny, LOT suggesting blind chance, PORTION implying the apportioning of good and evil.
e.g. it was her lot to die childless
e.g. remorse was his daily portion
DOOM distinctly implies a grim or calamitous fate.
e.g. if the rebellion fails, his doom is certain
noun
1. the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power:
〖通例one's ～〗 (人などの)運命, 運命的な出来事, 運 (!通例悪い出来事を暗示) ; 行く末, 末路; 死, 最期; 破滅
e.g. fate decided his course for him
e.g. his injury is a cruel twist of fate.
the course of someone's life, or the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control:
(人間の力の及ばない)運命の力, 宿命; 〖時にF-〗運命の女神
e.g. he suffered the same fate as his companion.
in singular the inescapable death of a person:
e.g. the guards led her to her fate.
2. (the Fates) Greek & Roman Mythology three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Also called Moirai and Parcae.
〖the Fates〗〘ギ神･ロ神〙 運命の三女神〘人間の運命の糸を紡ぎ出すClotho, その長さを定めるLachesis, それを断ち切るAtropos〙.
(the Fates) another term for Norns.
verb (be fated)
be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way:
e.g. with infinitive : the regime was fated to end badly.
PHRASES
seal someone's fate
make it inevitable that something unpleasant will happen to someone:
e.g. he had cheated the boss and sealed his own fate.
DERIVATIVES
fatedness noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.