fate
part of speech
noun (fate, fates)
meaning for a pupil
1) Fate is a power that some people believe decides what will happen in the future. tree →
2) A person's or thing's fate is what happens to them in the end, often something bad. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Jewish tradition says people have free will and that God guides the world. So "fate" is not a ruler over people in the way some ancient peoples thought. In the primary lessons: In stories, fate makes characters meet or decides how things end: «It was fate.» In history: «the fate of the ship» means what happened to it. Phrases: tempt fate (take a silly risk), a twist of fate, seal someone's fate.
examples
- They believed it was fate that brought them together. tree →
- Nobody knows the fate of the lost explorers. tree →
- The judge would decide his fate. tree →
- Don't tempt fate by saying we'll win easily! tree →
- By a twist of fate, they met again years later. tree →
- The fate of the old tree was decided by the council. tree →
- The merchants now mourned their fate. tree →
note
Homophone: «fête» (a fair or party, especially in the UK), which sounds the same. «Fate» is often about something serious or sad; «luck» is about chance in small things.
In the corpora
- In the front seat the old cravings rise up again: «It is fate!» he said to himself.
- "Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went wrong.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.