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say it: DEH-stuh-nee
destiny is a noun meaning "an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future". It is pronounced /ˈdɛstəni/ — DEH-stuh-nee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
“we are helpless in the face of destiny”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for destiny come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.