fate

noun/feɪt/

Frequency rank: #2,579 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

The power believed to control events; what is bound to happen.

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Example sentence

Despite all their efforts, they believed it was simply fate that they would meet again someday.

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