fate

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
  2. noun the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
  3. noun your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

Etymology

From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

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Synonyms

destiny

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