http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Fate
or try
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Fate
i would giv u my opinion, but this word has way too many different meanings.
hope this helps!
2007-02-03 05:55:34
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answered by TheApocalypticOrgasm 6
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There may not be a definition available for the oft used word FATE. Common usage suggests 'luck', 'destiny', 'future', 'likely happenings', 'events and episodes which life is prescheduled to confront' and so on.
A religious rendering of the term may imply a 'sapling' whose seeds are past deeds. The common idiom is: 'as you sow, so you reap'.
It can be a way of reconciling to an adversity. For example, one might exclaim when facing a pain or a loss:
'Why cry, this was to happen!' A way of getting solace.
A conventional belief is that FATE is a pre-written code and governs all events and happenings in one's life. And the code is specific to each individual--there is no standard content.
Some people believe that turning a fatalist may make a person complacent and inactive.
2007-02-03 06:13:18
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answered by braj k 3
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1. A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
2. Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
3. The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
4. The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life.
5. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
2007-02-03 08:00:42
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answered by goncae 2
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1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
2. 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.
3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.
4. a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.
5. death, destruction, or ruin.
6. the Fates, Classical Mythology. the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae. (like from Hercules!!)
–verb (used with object) 7. 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.
2007-02-03 06:50:55
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answered by Anonymous
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Fate is the result of the map of your life that you drew up in Heaven before you were born.
2007-02-03 06:00:11
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answered by Bud's Girl 6
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destiny: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Destiny: the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"
destine: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist"
fortune: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
2007-02-03 05:56:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Fate is pre-Destined, destiny .
2007-02-03 05:58:43
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answered by Lindsay Jane 6
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December 30,2006.
2007-02-03 06:01:09
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answered by MaryBeth 7
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Your destiny.
2007-02-03 06:00:25
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answered by zzap2001 4
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