Destiny

//ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.
  2. 2
    A female given name from English.

    "The man smiled and extended his hand. "I'm Cole." Rebecca took his hand. "Destiny." She'd chosen the name because she felt as though she'd discovered just that the day she realized what her mission in life was to be."

Noun
  1. 1
    That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.

    "Death is the destiny of all mortal men."

  2. 2
    an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future wordnet
  3. 3
    That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

    "Ain't no use to fight it / Don't tamper with my destiny / Any way you slice it / I'm in the hands of fate, you see"

  4. 4
    the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events wordnet
  5. 5
    One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).

    "Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny"

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  1. 6
    your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) wordnet
  2. 7
    The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

    "Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd.

Etymology 2

From the noun destiny since the 1970s.

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