I. noun
whatever is destined or inevitably decreed for one
the fate of the bill has not been decided
Synonyms: circumstance, destiny, doom, kismet, lot, moira, portion, weird
Related Word: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot; end, ending, termination; ineluctability, inescapableness, inevitability, inevitableness, unavoidability
Contrasted words: accident, chance, fortune, hazard, luck
II. verb
Synonyms: predestine 1, destine, determine, doom (to), foreordain, predetermine, preform, preordain