destiny
UK/ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/
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Australia/ˈdes.tɪ.ni/
destiny noun: that to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined or inevitable eventual state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
Noun
destiny (plural destinies)
- That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined or inevitable eventual state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
- Death is the destiny of all mortal men.
- Her death (April 18, 1881) left the Empress Ts‘ŭ Hsi, the playmate of her youth, the sole Regent of China, with the destiny of four hundred millions of human beings in her hands.1914, Li Ung Bing, “The Second Joint Regency of the Empress”, in Joseph Whiteside, editor, Outlines of Chinese History, Shanghai: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, page 565
- One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
- Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!
- Suspended between two ancient trees in some woody wonderland, the nearby brook babblingly bubbling to itself, the gently cooling breezes sweeping away all things bothersome, we self-sway each other to our own rhythms, and all our manifest destinies are ahhhsome.2016 June 27, Bernard Louis De Koven, “Hammocky Dreams”, in A Playful Path
- 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.
- Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half.
- There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies.1995, Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
- Synonyms:
- fate
Proper noun capitalized: Destiny
Destiny
- An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.
- A female given name from English.
- The man smiled and extended his hand. "I'm Cole." Rebecca took his hand. "Destiny." She'd chosen the name because she felt as though she'd discovered just that the day she realized what her mission in life was to be.2010, Dwayne S. Joseph, Eye for an Eye, Urban Soul, published 2010, →ISBN
destiny meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
destiny in Hindi
- predetermined condition; fate; fixed order of things
- नियति niyti
destiny in Tamil
- விதி, ஊழ்
destiny in Urdu
- destiny, fortune, luck
- بھاگ bhāg
- destiny
- تقدیر taqdīr, نیرو nīrū
- destiny, providence
- قدرت qudrat
- destiny, fortune, fate
- للاٹ lalāṭ
destiny in Bengali
- destiny, fate
- ভাল bhal, কপাল kopal
More languagesFewer languages
- destiny in Telugu
- ప్రారబ్ధము prārabdhamu
- destiny in Malayalam
- പ്രാരബ്ധം prārabdhaṁ
- destiny in Kannada
- ಕರ್ಮ karma
- destiny in Punjabi
- برات barāt
- destiny in Gujarati
- મુકદ્દર mukaddar
- destiny in Odia
- ଭାଗ୍ୟ bhāgya
- destiny in Sanskrit
- अदृष्ट adṛṣṭa, सम्पद् sampád
- destiny in Nepali
- नियति
- destiny in Tagalog
- tadhana
Examples of destiny in a sentence
- And nothing can keep him from me / He is my destiny1963, “I Will Follow Him”, Norman Gimbel (lyrics), Franck Pourcel (music), performed by Peggy March:
- Ain't no use to fight it / Don't tamper with my destiny / Any way you slice it / I'm in the hands of fate, you see1977, The Originals, “Been Decided”, in Down to Love Town:
Synonyms of destiny
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Forms of destiny
| plural | destinies |
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Origin of destiny
From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd.
From the noun destiny since the 1970s.
Words formed from destiny
Phrases with destiny
Questions about destiny
- What does destiny mean?
- Destiny means that to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined or inevitable eventual state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
- What is destiny in Hindi?
- Destiny in Hindi is नियति (niyti). See Destiny meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use destiny in a sentence?
- And nothing can keep him from me / He is my destiny
- What part of speech is destiny?
- Destiny can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce destiny?
- Destiny is pronounced /ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of destiny?
- The plural of destiny is destinies.
Words near destiny in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: destiny (page history and authors); Destiny (page history and authors); destiny (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بھاگ (Urdu) (page history and authors); কপাল (Bengali) (page history and authors); ప్రారబ్ధము (Telugu) (page history and authors); പ്രാരബ്ധം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಕರ್ಮ (Kannada) (page history and authors); برات (Punjabi) (page history and authors); મુકદ્દર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଭାଗ୍ୟ (Odia) (page history and authors); अदृष्ट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); destiny (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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