VICISSITUDES


Meaning of VICISSITUDES in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vɪsɪsɪtju:dz, AM -tu:dz ]

You use vicissitudes to refer to changes, especially unpleasant ones, that happen to someone or something at different times in their life or development. ( FORMAL )

Whatever the vicissitudes of her past life, Jill now seems to have come through.

N-PLURAL : oft N of n

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