Meaning

noun an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

verb decree or designate beforehand

noun the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

originFrom Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

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