/ feɪt; NAmE / noun
1.
[ C ] the things, especially bad things, that will happen or have happened to sb/sth :
The fate of the three men is unknown.
She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate.
The court will decide our fate / fates .
Each of the managers suffered the same fate .
The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate .
From that moment our fate was sealed (= our future was decided) .
2.
[ U ] the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed :
Fate was kind to me that day.
By a strange twist of fate , Andy and I were on the same plane.
➡ note at luck
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IDIOMS
- a fate worse than death
—more at tempt
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English : from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum that which has been spoken, from fari speak.