Usually means: Predetermined course of life events.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fate: Merriam-Webster
  2. fate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fate, fate, fate: Wordnik
  7. fate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fate, fate: Wiktionary
  9. fate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fate: Dictionary.com
  13. fate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FATE (role-playing game), FATE (role-playing game system), Fate (Bleak song), Fate (Chaka Khan song), Fate (Dr. Dog album), Fate (Prudence Liew EP), Fate (band), Fate (comics), Fate (disambiguation), Fate (magazine), Fate (role-playing game system), Fate (series), Fate (video game), Fate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fate: Rhymezone
  19. fate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. fate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. fate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. fate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. fate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fate (disambiguation), Fate (song), fate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fate (disambiguation), Fate (song), Fate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Fate: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Fate (disambiguation), Fate (song), fate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FATE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. fate: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fate: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FATE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. F.A.T.E, f'ate, fate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fate: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
noun:  The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
noun:  An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
noun:  Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
noun:  (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
noun:  (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
verb:  (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
noun:  Any one of the Fates.
noun:  A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).
noun:  (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings). [Any one of the Fates.]

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