Download the app
educalingo
destinies
" I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view."
Richard Attenborough

Meaning of "destinies" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DESTINIES

destinies


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESTINIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Destinies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESTINIES

destabilisation · destabilise · destabiliser · destabilization · destabilize · destabilizer · destain · destination · destine · destined · destiny · destitute · destituteness · destitution · destock · destrier · destroy · destroyable · destroyer · destroyer escort

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESTINIES

balconies · beanies · Brownies · bunnies · ceremonies · Colonies · companies · denies · funnies · grannies · ignominies · monies · mutinies · pennies · ponies · postliminies · scrutinies · testimonies · trannies · villainies

Synonyms and antonyms of destinies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DESTINIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «destinies» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «destinies» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DESTINIES

Find out the translation of destinies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of destinies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «destinies» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

命运
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

destinos
570 millions of speakers
en

English

destinies
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

नियति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مصائر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

судьбы
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

destinos
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ভাগ্য
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

destins
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Nasib
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schicksale
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

運命
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

운명
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nasibe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mệnh
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

இலக்கிற்கான
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

भाग्य
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kaderi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

destini
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

losy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

долі
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

destine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πεπρωμένα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

öden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjebner
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of destinies

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESTINIES»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of destinies
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «destinies».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about destinies

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «DESTINIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word destinies.
1
Ansel Adams
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
2
Richard Attenborough
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
3
Gaston Bachelard
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
4
Joseph P. Bradley
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
5
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
6
J. Reuben Clark
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
7
Jonathan Evison
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.
8
Ma Jian
I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
9
Frank B. Kellogg
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
10
Rosa Luxemburg
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESTINIES»

Discover the use of destinies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to destinies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town
This landmark book brings theory alive with fascinating ethnographic findings that advance our understanding of childhood, culture, and change.
Barbara Rogoff, 2011
2
Indonesian Destinies
A clear and compelling passion shines through this richly illustrated work. Rarely have narrative history and personal historical witness been so seamlessly joined.
Theodore Friend, 2009
3
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening ...
Laura E. Gomez, 2007
4
Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel
This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery.
Louis Owens, 1994
5
Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States
This book offers an important new synthesis of that complex relationship by studying how actions and policies of the United States have been interpreted and played out in Latin America.
Don M. Coerver, Linda Biesele Hall, 1999
6
Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teen ...
In Destinies of the Disadvantaged, Furstenberg brings that tale to life with the perspective of a historian and the insight of an insider, and provides the straight facts needed to craft effective policies to address teen pregnancy.
Frank F. Furstenberg, 2007
7
Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in ...
This anthology is organized aroun the four basic waves of immigration (European, Latin American, Asian, and African).
Silvia Pedraza, Rubén G. Rumbaut, 1996
8
Hollywood Destinies: European Directors in America, 1922-1931
This edition contains recent scholarship on the reception of foreign films and directors in America in the 1920s, analyzes films that were not previously available, and includes a revised and updated bibliography.
Graham Petrie, 2002
9
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino. itself in the face of age's authority, the more it is driven to form an extreme and absolute idea of itself, and the more it remains dominated by looming parental phantoms. The young arouse similar uneasiness in the old: they loom ...
Italo Calvino, 2010
10
Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. ...
DIVUses a discussion of contemporary films and literary works to present an understanding of paranoia as a defining element in postmodern late-capitalist structure./div ""Latent Destinies" provides a smartly informed paradigm for ...
Patrick O'Donnell, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESTINIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term destinies is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Soccer Is Still Out of Reach for Half the World's Women
“We showed the world that women could be powerful, strong, determined, and capable of guiding their own destinies, too. Now women players ... «TIME, Jul 15»
2
Capcom Should Really Bring The New Phoenix Wright West
That last game, Dual Destinies, was a digital-only release, which upset at least a few cartridge-loving fans. But I imagine all of us would prefer ... «Kotaku, Jul 15»
3
Puerto Rico's anxiety of its territorial status adds to debt crisis
“The Caribbean is full of countries that are small just like us, and they control their own destinies, their resources, their policies.” But with ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
4
A Turkish Plan to Bail Out Greece?
The destinies of these neighboring countries seemingly were sealed together. They both were the recipients of the Marshall Plan in the wake of ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
5
Twenty-nine players who could be crucial this Ashes
In fact, if you play back a speech he made before the Greek referendum about the rights of people not to have their destinies controlled by the ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
6
The keys to motivating your staff
That makes them feel empowered and in control of their own destinies. • Encourage them to approach you. Employees should feel like they can ... «Business Management Daily, Jul 15»
7
ESPN and Marvel team up to explore roots of superhero athletes
And, finally, they embrace their destinies, he said, and figure out “what they do with that power, whether to use it for good or evil.” For athletes at ... «Newbritainherald, Jul 15»
8
Opinion - I'm a slave to 'Destiny' and I'm OK with that
So now I have all these “Destinies” with all these characters with all this DLC for all these platforms. The daily and weekly missions and strikes ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
9
Doing the hard yards and loving it
Two Productions was born when the couple decided to take control of their own destinies when they left drama school. But it was gestating for a ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»
10
The Battles Within APC
... to resign to fate is to be crippled fast, hence they took their destinies in their hands and collectively voted en masse for Dimeji Bankole to lead ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Destinies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/destinies>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
EN