an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future;
the ultimate agency that predetermines 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";
