Definitions for Fates

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Fates fate

Spelling: [feyt]

IPA: /feɪt/

Fates is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Fates (aefst).

Definitions for Fates

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 Fates

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

Examples for Fates

Meanwhile we must attend to the fates of these unhappy young people.

I begin to be afraid that the fates is determined to make the world easy to me.'

It seemed as though the fates and Sue were in league to keep Joe in my life.

Retrieving him at least reminds soldiers that we will never abandon them to their fates, right or wrong.

Years later, they would joke among themselves in harsh terms about the fates of folks they felt had betrayed them.

We sat in the corner of a studio near his unfinished group of the “fates.”

It was a strategic error to tie their fates to those regimes.

It seemed more than a decree of chance that their fates should be intertwined.

The fates could never be so hard, for certainly now they were smiling.

But together, we can rediscover a purpose without surrendering American politics to the fates.