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fate
noun /feɪt/Definition
B2 [C usually singular] what happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death or defeat: We want to decide our own fate. His fate is now in the hands of the jury. The disciples were terrified that they would suffer/meet the same fate as Jesus.Inevitable B2 [U] a power that some people believe causes and controls all events, so that you cannot change or control the way things will happen: When we met again by chance in Cairo, I felt it must be fate. Fate has brought us together.Fate and destiny
(Definition of fate noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic adjective (CERTAIN)
- automatically adverb (CERTAINLY)
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- doom noun
- doom verb
- fated adjective
- help verb (STOP YOURSELF)
- implacable adjective
- inalienable adjective
- inexorable adjective
- it can't be helped idiom
- relentless adjective
- remorseless adjective
- seal sb's fate idiom
- unavoidable adjective
- unstoppable adjective
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