destiny : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: destiny	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for destiny
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
destiny n an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future Synonym(s): destiny, fate the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" Synonym(s): destiny, fate 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" Synonym(s): fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Destiny \Des"ti*ny\, n.; pl. {Destinies}. [OE. destinee, destene, F. destin[82]e, from destiner. See {Destine}.] 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. --Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. --Bryant. 2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny? --Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. --Longfellow. {The Destinies} (Anc. Myth.), the three Parc[91], or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. --Shak.