American English pronunciation
How to pronounce destiny
IPA transcription: ['dɛstəni]
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Noun
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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”
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an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
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the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
“we are helpless in the face of destiny”
Usage examples
- Then you'll die in the midst of trying to realize your destiny.
- Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.
- Because you are trying to realize your destiny.
- "This was my destiny, not yours," the alchemist answered.
- Because you are trying to realize your destiny.
- Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.
- It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny, the boy thought.
- The sea has lived on in this shell, because that's its destiny.
- He said that everything has its own destiny.
- It was her manifest destiny to eat that chocolate bar.