destiny
de stuh nee
- n an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- n the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
we are helpless in the face of destiny - n your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- As one oft-quoted account has it: "Whomsoever claims this spear and solves its secrets holds the destiny of the world in his hands, for good or evil.
- They share the same air, same water and the same destiny BY TIM PADGETT AND CATHY BOOTH THOMAS Jurez "I have the most satisfying job in Jurez," says Arturo Chvez.
- In a new book that attempts to survey the history of man's conception of destiny, a British cleric and scholar raises this question, and ends with an answer trembling on his tongue.