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Destiny Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Destiny? [n] an event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [n] the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny" [n] 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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Destiny: circumstances \| fate \| Fate \| fate \| fortune \| lot \| luck \| portion Related Terms \| Find terms related to Destiny: a better place \| accidentality \| actuarial calculation \| adventitiousness \| afterlife \| afterworld \| allotment \| allowance \| apodosis \| appointed lot \| astral influences \| astrology \| big end \| bigger half \| bit \| bite \| book of fate \| break \| budget \| casualness \| catastrophe \| ceasing \| cessation \| chance \| chunk \| circumstance \| coda \| commission \| conclusion \| constellation \| consummation \| contingent \| crack of doom \| culmination \| cup \| curtain \| curtains \| cut \| deal \| death \| decease \| denouement \| design \| destination \| dies funestis \| dividend \| dole \| doom \| effect \| end \| end point \| ending \| envoi \| epilogue \| equal share \| eschatology \| eternal home \| expiration \| fatality \| fate \| final solution \| final twitch \| final words \| finale \| finality \| finis \| finish \| flukiness \| foredoom \| fortuitousness \| fortuity \| fortune \| Friday \| Friday the thirteenth \| future \| future state \| gamble \| goal \| good fortune \| good luck \| half \| halver \| hap \| happenstance \| happy chance \| Heaven \| heedless hap \| helping \| home \| how they fall \| ides of March \| indeterminacy \| indeterminateness \| inevitability \| intent \| intention \| interest \| izzard \| karma \| kismet \| last \| last breath \| last gasp \| last things \| last trumpet \| last words \| latter end \| law of averages \| life after death \| life to come \| lot \| luck \| measure \| meed \| mess \| modicum \| moiety \| moira \| next world \| objective \| omega \| opportunity \| otherworld \| Paradise \| part \| payoff \| percentage \| period \| peroration \| piece \| planets \| portion \| postexistence \| principle of indeterminacy \| probability \| problematicness \| proportion \| quantum \| quietus \| quota \| rake-off \| random sample \| ration \| resolution \| resting place \| risk \| run of luck \| segment \| serendipity \| share \| slice \| small share \| stake \| stars \| statistical probability \| stock \| stoppage \| stopping place \| swan song \| term \| terminal \| termination \| terminus \| the beyond \| the breaks \| the good hereafter \| the grave \| the great beyond \| the great hereafter \| the hereafter \| the unknown \| theory of probability \| uncertainty \| uncertainty principle \| unlucky day \| weird \| what bodes \| what is fated \| whatever comes \| wheel of fortune \| will of Heaven \| windup \| world to come \| Z See Also \| bad luck \| causal agency \| causal agent \| cause \| condition \| day of reckoning \| doom \| doomsday \| failure \| good fortune \| good luck \| happening \| ill luck \| inevitable \| karma \| kismat \| kismet \| misfortune \| natural event \| occult \| occurrence \| predestination \| providence \| supernatural \| tough luck Destiny In Webster's Dictionary \Des"ti*ny\, n.; pl. {Destinies}. [OE. destinee, destene, F. destin['e]e, from destiner. See {Destine}.] 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. --Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. --Bryant. 2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny? --Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. --Longfellow. {The Destinies} (Anc. Myth.), the three Parc[ae], or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. --Shak.

Destiny Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Destiny?

[n] an event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
[n] the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"
[n] 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"

Destiny In Webster's Dictionary

\Des"ti*ny\, n.; pl. {Destinies}. [OE. destinee,
destene, F. destin['e]e, from destiner. See {Destine}.]
1. That to which any person or thing is destined;
   predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine
   or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

         Thither he Will come to know his destiny. --Shak.

         No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his
         destiny.                              --Bryant.

2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a
   resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the
   future, whether in general or of an individual.

         But who can turn the stream of destiny? --Spenser.

         Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as
         inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
                                               --Longfellow.

{The Destinies} (Anc. Myth.), the three Parc[ae], or Fates;
   the supposed powers which preside over human life, and
   determine its circumstances and duration.

         Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. --Shak.

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