<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.</li><li>Synonyms: luck, chance, kismet, karma</li><li>the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again.</li><li>that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.</li><li>a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.</li><li>death, destruction, or ruin.</li><li>the Fates, Classical Mythology: the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive): a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.</li><li>Synonyms: preordain, foreordain</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>