Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: destiny
IPA transcription: [d'ɛstəni]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: destiny, fate
    Meaning: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
  • Synonyms: destiny, fate
    Meaning: 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
  • Destiny!
  • WAITING ON DESTINY
  • Music to effect man's destiny!
  • "Destiny is not a matter of chance.
  • Paul's destiny, though none knew it, hung in the balance.
  • Raoul, I seem to read your future destiny as through a cloud.
  • 'The saddest of fates is to die and meet destiny from hunger?'
  • We will reenforce you." The universal feeling was that of a common cause and common destiny.
  • "But Destiny had singled me out, humble though I was, for a grander fate! One day I crawled near
  • The tale goes that Tiphys son of Hagnias died; nor was it his destiny thereafter to sail any further.