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# fate

«fate» in Mova's school dictionary: **a power that some people believe decides what will happen…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fate, fates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fate is a power that some people believe decides what will happen in the future. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#m1)

2) A person's or thing's fate is what happens to them in the end, often something bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, fate makes characters meet or decides how things end: «It was fate.» In history: «the fate of the ship» means what happened to it. Phrases: tempt fate (take a silly risk), a twist of fate, seal someone's fate.

### examples

- They believed it was fate that brought them together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x1)
- Nobody knows the fate of the lost explorers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x2)
- The judge would decide his fate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x3)
- Don't tempt fate by saying we'll win easily! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x4)
- By a twist of fate, they met again years later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x5)
- The fate of the old tree was decided by the council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x6)
- The merchants now mourned their fate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/#x7)

### note

Homophone: «fête» (a fair or party, especially in the UK), which sounds the same. «Fate» is often about something serious or sad; «luck» is about chance in small things.

### In the corpora

- [In the front seat the old cravings rise up again: «It is fate!» he said to himself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/27/)
- ["Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.