W: (v) fate [Related to: fate] (decree or designate beforehand) "She was destined to become a great pianist"
S: (n) destiny, fate (the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)) "we are helpless in the face of destiny"
S: (n) fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion (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"
S: (n) roots (the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage) "his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots"
S: (n) lysogeny, lysogenicity (the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material) "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"
S: (n) fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion (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"