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destiny in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
    "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"
    fortune  destiny  fate  luck  lot  circumstances  portion 
  2. an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
    destiny  fate 
  3. the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
    "we are helpless in the face of destiny"
    destiny  fate 
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