DESTINY


Meaning of DESTINY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

human

They had not learned to decipher that terrible handwriting of human destiny , illness and death.

It is the high-water mark of the Rebelliona turning point of history and of human destiny !

manifest

But he does not lack confidence or sense of manifest Elvis destiny .

The doctrine of manifest destiny was distinct from the imperialist dynamic that flourished around the turn of the century.

This was manifest destiny trickling south.

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This was the language of manifest destiny , whose speakers assumed that they were moral examples to the whole world.

■ VERB

change

His whole family, even his whole village, are going to change their destiny .

A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world.

In the intervening period, of course, the Daleks had changed the face and destiny of the show for ever.

control

David Pleat has turned down the chance to control his own destiny at crisis-club Luton.

Yet it was also a time when women were left alone to control their own athletic destinies .

This is a fundamental issue which must be addressed by those who control our industry's destiny .

I want to control my destiny .

We shall not be able to influence events that control our destiny .

The only other Pac-10 team that controls its own destiny is Cal.

The magic word Literacy campaigns push back the boundaries of ignorance and give people more chance of controlling their own destiny .

It is men who sit in parliament, debating the laws which control a woman's destiny .

determine

To what extent should private security agencies be allowed to determine national destinies ?

Material and biological conditions always help determine the destiny of civilizations.

These considerations should be borne in mind, as they can determine the ultimate destiny of our music.

But they all ride upon guiding waves, which determine their destiny .

To Governments Democracy is the right of people to participate in running and determining their own destiny .

fulfil

To be a street criminal is therefore to fulfil cultural destiny .

The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny .

Most animals fulfil their destiny with that curious strategy.

shape

It is knowledge, not fate, that shapes their destiny .

They shaped the destinies of human beings, but human beings were only one of their concerns.

Nevertheless, our personal philosophy and artistic goals must always play their important part in shaping our destiny .

It shaped the destinies not just of individuals but of entire provinces and kingdoms.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be master of your own fate/destiny

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Susan wondered whether it was her destiny to marry Jorge and live in Mexico.

The government wants to give people more control over their own destinies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Hearing once more the call of destiny , Teclis volunteered to go to the aid of mankind.

However Portia is not content to leave her destiny in such a way.

It was a country that he had no control over its destiny and needed the world's attention.

The destiny of man is not separated from the destiny of the world.

They assert that the destiny of the soul is related to the activity of the soul during its habitation in the body.

They tinkered with the destiny of many species, on land and in the ocean.

This destiny , however, is created entirely by recent history.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.