fate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fate/feɪt/

▶noun

• 1 the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.

• 2 the outcome of a situation for someone or something.

• 3 the unescapable death of a person.

• 4 (the Fates) Greek & Roman Mythology the three goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) who preside over the birth and life of humans.

▶verb (be fated) be destined to happen or turn out in a particular way.

– phrases
seal someone's fate make it inevitable that something unpleasant will happen to someone.

– origin ME: from Ital. fato or (later) from its source, L. fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.