English Dictionary
Definition of “fate”
fate (feɪt
)
Definitions
noun
- the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events
- the inevitable fortune that befalls a person or thing; destiny
- the end or final result
- a calamitous or unfavourable outcome or result; death, destruction, or downfall
verb
- (tr; usually passive) to predetermine; doom ⇒
he was fated to lose the game
Word Origin
C14: from Latin fātum oracular utterance, from fārī to speak
Quotations
"Fate keeps on happening"
Anita Loos"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat"
Elizabeth Bowen"... to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness"
Oriana Fallaci"We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets"
Karl Popper"Fate and character are the same concept"
Novalis"Man proposes, God disposes"
"What must be, must be (Italian, Che sera, sera)"
Translations
- British English:
fate
Fate is a power that some people believe controls everything that happens.Fate has brought them together.feɪt NOUN Fate has brought them together.
- Spanish:
hado
nm
- French:
destin
nm
- German:
Schicksal
nnt
- Chinese: 命运 n
- Arabic: قَدَر n
- Portuguese: destino nm
- Russian: судьба nf
- Croatian: usud nm
- Czech: osud nm
- Danish: skæbne nutr
- Dutch: noodlot nnt
- Finnish: kohtalo n
- Greek: μοίρα nf
- Italian: fato nm
- Japanese: 運命 n
- Korean: 운명 n
- Norwegian: skjebne nm
- Polish: los nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: destino nm
- European Spanish:
hado
nm
- Swedish: öde nnt
- Thai: โชคชะตา n
- Turkish: kader n
- Vietnamese: số phận n
Usage examples
Who can tell the validity of this proposition -- yet there are people whose conviction is strong enough to steer fate.
Salley Vickers, INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3 (2002)Understandably they're trying not to dwell on the subject for fear of tempting fate or ruining their form.
Yachting Boating World (2004)Disaster courting is not just tempting fate , it actually creates a personal fate.
Globe and Mail (2003)His fate - and La Rue very much believes in fate - was sealed.
Glasgow Herald (2001)With each arrival came incredible stories of survival, of unbridled courage, and of how fate had intervened.
Rob Mundle, FATAL STORM (2001)
