The principle, power, or agency by which events are predetermined; fate, destiny.

Fortune, destiny, fate, luck.

Chance, hap, or luck, regarded as a cause of events and changes in men's affairs. Often (after Latin) personified as a goddess, ‘the power…

(One's) lot, fate, fortune; fate or fortune as a ruler of events. Obsolete.

With possessive pronoun: The power or agency held to predetermine a particular person's life or lot. Obsolete.

The principle, power, or agency by which, according to certain philosophical and popular systems of belief, all events, or some events in…

= destiny, n.

Applied to Fortune, Nature, etc. personified.

The quality or condition of being predetermined by or subject to fate or destiny; subjection to fate, as attributed to the universe generally…

Esp. among the ancient Greeks: fate personified as an inescapable force to which even the gods are subject; inevitability, necessity.