Definitions for fate

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Spelling: [feyt]
IPA: /feɪt/

Fate is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in fate (aeft).

Definitions for fate

noun

  1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot:
  2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time:
  3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny:
  4. a prophetic declaration of what must be:
  5. death, destruction, or ruin.
  6. the Fates, Classical Mythology. the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.

verb (used with object)

  1. to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive):

Origin of fate

1325-75; Middle English Latin fātum utterance, decree of fate, destiny, orig. neuter of fātus, past participle of fārī to speak

Examples for fate

And now, as the train took her swiftly to her fate, she made the best of it.

So how concerned should people be about the fate of the VSV vaccine?

From that day the fate of Leichardt and his companions has been involved in mystery.

All efforts to ascertain your fate proved utterly fruitless.

The fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the 162 souls on board is a tragedy, but it will not remain a mystery for much longer.

Yet, much like the fate that fell the first season, ratings just plain weren't good.

She was maintaining that calm level of submission to fate which had been her lifelong habit.

Sybil is dead, as is Matthew; Gregson is missing with dark hints about his fate.

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.

Word Value for fate
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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