destiny

des-ti-ny · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    The events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future; fate.

  2. 2.

    The hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future.

  3. 3.

    One's ultimate purpose or outcome.

Forms

plural: destinies

Related words

See also: destined, fate, fortune
Synonyms: doom, fate, fortune, kismet, lot

Etymology

From Old French destinee, from Latin destinata, feminine past participle of destinare meaning "to make firm, establish."