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noun

  • An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
  • The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman. )
    • usage: "we are helpless in the face of destiny"
  • Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you. )
    • usage: "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"
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by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Destiny is a feminine given name
  • French, English: Certain fortune; fate. The mythological Greek god of fate
  • French: Fate  Origin: English  
  • English: Means simply "destiny, fate" from the English word, ultimately from Latin destinare "to determine", a derivative of stare "to stand"
  • Latin: One's fate