noun

1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

Synonyms: destiny, doom, fortune, kismet, lot, necessity, orlay, predestination

verb

1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

   “The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.”