English Online Dictionary. What means destiny? What does destiny mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/
Noun
destiny (plural destinies)
- That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
- Synonyms: fate, lot
- That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
- The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
- Synonym: fate
Synonyms
- fate
- orlay
Derived terms
Related terms
- destinate
- destination
- destine
Translations
See also
- doom
See also
- destination
References
- “destiny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- density