Learner’s Word of the Day=> Fate

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fate   

 

Function: noun

Plural: fates

Meanings:
1 [noncount] : a power that is believed to control what happens in the future
Examples:
<They thought they would never see each other again, but fate brought them back together.>
<a surprising turn/twist/quirk of fate>

2 [count] : the things that will happen to a person or thing : the future that someone or something will have
Examples:
<The boy disappeared, and his fate was unknown [=no one knew what happened to him] for many years.>
<Exile was his fate. = It was his fate to be exiled. [=he was exiled]>
<The two companies suffered a commonfate. [=the same thing happened to both companies]>
<One company went bankrupt, and a similar fate befell the other.>
<her sad/unhappy/tragic fate>
<Congress will decide the bill’s fatetomorrow. [=will vote to accept or reject the bill tomorrow]>
<Her fate was sealed by the marriage arrangement made in her youth.>
<She regarded poverty as a fate worse than death. [=as worse than dying]>
<Like his father, he met his fate[=he died] on the battlefield.>