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As a noun, fate means the presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. As a verb, it means foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
Meanings of fate
11 meaningsnoun
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
“Accept your fate.”
biochemistryThe products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
embryologyThe mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Similar: destinyThe ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of eventsperson
“we are helpless in the face of destiny”
Similar: destiny
Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
verb
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.”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).