## Meanings
1. What will happen to someone or something, especially something bad that cannot be avoided.
2. A power believed to decide events before they happen.
3. To decide someone's future in advance, making it unavoidable.

## Examples
- No one knew the fate of the missing sailors.
- She believed that fate had brought them together.
- He felt he was fated to live a quiet life in his hometown.

## Synonyms
- chance
- destin
- destiny
- doom
- fatality
- foredoom
- foreordination
- fortune
- kismet
- lot
- orlay
- portion

## Antonyms
- choice
- luck

## Derived Forms
- fatal
- fatalism
- fatality
- fate-fraught
- fated
- fatefraught
- fateful
- fateless
- fatelike
- fatesome

## Related Forms
- determinism
- indeterminism
- inevitable
- inevitably

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰeh₂-
- Root: fate
- Root: fāta

## Etymology
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

## AI Etymology
Fate comes from Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird. In current use, the main senses are “What will happen to someone or something, especially something bad that cannot be avoided” and “A power believed to decide events before they happen”.

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