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I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
Christopher Atkins

Meaning of "fate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FATE

From Latin fātum oracular utterance, from fārī to speak.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FATE

fate  [feɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fate is a verb and can also act as 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.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb fate in English.

WHAT DOES FATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fate

Destiny

Destiny or fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.

Definition of fate in the English dictionary

The first definition of fate in the dictionary is the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events. Other definition of fate is the inevitable fortune that befalls a person or thing; destiny. Fate is also the end or final result.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FATE

PRESENT

Present
I fate
you fate
he/she/it fates
we fate
you fate
they fate
Present continuous
I am fating
you are fating
he/she/it is fating
we are fating
you are fating
they are fating
Present perfect
I have fated
you have fated
he/she/it has fated
we have fated
you have fated
they have fated
Present perfect continuous
I have been fating
you have been fating
he/she/it has been fating
we have been fating
you have been fating
they have been fating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I fated
you fated
he/she/it fated
we fated
you fated
they fated
Past continuous
I was fating
you were fating
he/she/it was fating
we were fating
you were fating
they were fating
Past perfect
I had fated
you had fated
he/she/it had fated
we had fated
you had fated
they had fated
Past perfect continuous
I had been fating
you had been fating
he/she/it had been fating
we had been fating
you had been fating
they had been fating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will fate
you will fate
he/she/it will fate
we will fate
you will fate
they will fate
Future continuous
I will be fating
you will be fating
he/she/it will be fating
we will be fating
you will be fating
they will be fating
Future perfect
I will have fated
you will have fated
he/she/it will have fated
we will have fated
you will have fated
they will have fated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been fating
you will have been fating
he/she/it will have been fating
we will have been fating
you will have been fating
they will have been fating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would fate
you would fate
he/she/it would fate
we would fate
you would fate
they would fate
Conditional continuous
I would be fating
you would be fating
he/she/it would be fating
we would be fating
you would be fating
they would be fating
Conditional perfect
I would have fate
you would have fate
he/she/it would have fate
we would have fate
you would have fate
they would have fate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been fating
you would have been fating
he/she/it would have been fating
we would have been fating
you would have been fating
they would have been fating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you fate
we let´s fate
you fate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to fate
Past participle
fated
Present Participle
fating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FATE


affiliate
əˈfɪlɪˌeɪt
appreciate
əˈpriːʃɪˌeɪt
associate
əˈsəʊʃɪˌeɪt
create
kriːˈeɪt
date
deɪt
debate
dɪˈbeɪt
donate
dəʊˈneɪt
eight
eɪt
estate
ɪˈsteɪt
estimate
ˈɛstɪˌmeɪt
gate
ɡeɪt
generate
ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt
great
ɡreɪt
hate
heɪt
Kate
keɪt
Kuwait
kʊˈweɪt
late
leɪt
mate
meɪt
out-of-state
ˈaʊtəvˌsteɪt
participate
pɑːˈtɪsɪˌpeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FATE

fatalist
fatalistic
fatalistically
fatalities
fatality
fatally
fatalness
fatback
fatbird
fatbrained
fated
fateful
fatefully
fatefulness
Fates
fath.
fathead
fatheaded
fatheadedly
fatheadedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE FATE

accurate
appropriate
at any rate
certificate
chocolate
corporate
exclusive OR gate
graduate
in the aggregate
inaccurate
inappropriate
on a plate
private
rate
real estate
separate
state
template
translate
ultimate

Synonyms and antonyms of fate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FATE»

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

Translation of «fate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FATE

Find out the translation of fate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

命运
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

destino
570 millions of speakers

English

fate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भाग्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَدَر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

судьба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

destino
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাগ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

destin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

nasib
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schicksal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

運命
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

운명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

nasib
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

số phận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राक्तन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kader
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

los
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

доля
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

soartă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μοίρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

öde
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjebne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FATE»

The term «fate» is very widely used and occupies the 7.079 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of fate
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «FATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fate.
1
John Acton
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
2
Alfred Adler
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
3
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
4
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
5
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
6
Christopher Atkins
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
7
Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
8
Bipasha Basu
I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.
9
Otto Bauer
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
10
John Desmond Bernal
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FATE»

Discover the use of fate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fate
Before Bailey knows it, she’s being drawn into an otherworldly web more complicated than anything she weaves as a mortal Fate. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, 2009
2
Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir
A biography detailing the experiences of the American novelist, including his time as an air pilot in World War II
Ernest K. Gann, 1986
3
The Book of Fate
"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead.
Brad Meltzer, 2006
4
Something Like Fate
Erin and Lani are best friends . . . and total opposites when it comes to everything, including boys.
Susane Colasanti, 2010
5
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
A reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary ...
Sven Birkerts, 2006
6
Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for Huntington's disease, a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder from which her own mother died.
Alice Wexler, 1995
7
The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History
In the book's final section, Casey explores the postmodern theories of Foucault, Derrida, Tschumi, Deleuze and Guattari, and Irigaray.
Edward S. Casey, 1997
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Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment
The text emphasizes intuitively based mathematical models for chemical transport and transformations in the environment, and serves both as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science and engineering, ...
Harold F. Hemond, Elizabeth J. Fechner-Levy, 2000
9
Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties of ...
The fifth volume, Pesticides, completes this unique series of information-packed handbooks on environmental fate. The handbook contains fate calculations for a variety of pesticides of environmental interest today.
Donald Mackay, Wan Ying Shiu, Kuo-Ching Ma, 1997
10
Don Álvaro, Or, The Force of Fate
In this English edition designed for either classroom use or performance, Robert Fedorchek presents a readable translation faithful to the tone and spirit of the original.
Angel de Saavedra duque de Rivas, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Eurozone finance ministers prepare to decide Greece's fate
Eurozone finance ministers will decide on Saturday whether to keep Greece's prospects of staying in the eurozone alive after the cash-strapped ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Emmerdale spoilers: Who will meet a killer fate in explosive summer …
(Picture: ITV) Emmerdale will be rocked by a life changing event at the start of August, with several characters tipped to meet a deadly fate. «Metro, Jul 15»
3
Amicable split with Greece is not the worst fate for eurozone
We Europeans have always loved to talk, often for years on end. It allows us to deliberate over difficult dilemmas, soften the edges of intractable ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
This is the timetable for deciding Greece's fate in the euro
The Greek debt odyssey is evolving by the hour and several key events over the course of the next two days could shape the future of the ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
5
Jury deliberating fate of man accused of stabbing, killing man
Nima Nash Moradi was arrested in connection with a stabbing death in the Dr. Phillips area. (02/17/12). If you have more information on this ... «WFTV Orlando, Jul 15»
6
Avon Town Council Decides Fate of Country Club Road Sidewalk …
The council decided that even with help from private fundraising, it would be too difficult and expensive to do the project. The proposed ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
7
The Fate of the Senate
That's when they have less control of their fate. And long-shot Senate candidates are sometimes elected, as a little known Republican, ... «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»
8
BREAKING: 'Dr. Evil,' Cancer Doc in Medicare Fraud, Learns His Fate
The oncologist prescribed medically unnecessary treatments – some to people who weren't even sick – in $34 million fraud case. By Beth ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
9
Should fleur de lis meet confederate flag's fate?
NEW ORLEANS -- The fleur de lis is a symbol that is deeply ingrained in Louisiana's history. Seen in architecture, the state flag and on the ... «Alexandria Town Talk, Jul 15»
10
'Grimm' At Comic-Con 2015: Cast And Crew To Talk Juliette's Fate
Although season 5 of Grimm isn't set to premiere until late October, fans will be excited to learn that spoilers concerning the new season will be ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»

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