Destine

Definition: Destine

Destine

Verb

1. Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist".

2. Design or destine; "She was intended to become the director".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "destine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Destine \Des"tine\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Destined; present participle verb or noun Destining.]. (references)

Synonyms: Destine

Intention

Take upon oneself; (undertake); take into one's head; meditate, contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of; premeditate; compass, calculate; destine, destinate; propose.

Necessity

Destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell; necessitate; compel.

Crosswords: Destine

Destine romantice (1981)

Periodicals

• Bulletin D Informations Destine Aux Fabricants D Horlogerie Et De Bijouterie (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Destine II Shine [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Health

Genes do not destine people to a lifetime of obesity, however. (references)

Albanian

drejtohem (accost, call on, move, refer, resort, straighten, strike out, wend, wend one's way), shkoj (be, befit, call on, come round, elapse, get, go, go by, ride, step, thread, trace, tread, visit, wend), paracaktoj (designate, foreordain, mean, ordain, order, prearrange, predestine, predetermine, pre-establish, reserve, tab, will), përcaktoj (article, ascertain, assign, condition, define, design, designate, determine, elect, evaluate, stipulate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, determine, dispose, establish, figure, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), ‏وجه (aim, aspect, boss, change, control, countenance, cox, direct, engineer, face, guide, maw, mug, mush, officer, orient oneself, orientate, pan, phiz, point, preside, rein, shepherd, snout, steer, visage), ‏خصص (allocate, allow, appropriate, assign, consign, designate, detail, devote, earmark, give, particularize, spare, specify). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отреждам (allot, assign, intend, reserve), предопределям (foredoom, foreordain, mark out, mean, ordain, order, predestine, predetermine), предназначавам (assign, design, designate, intend, mean, mete out, reserve). (various references)

Chinese 

注定 (Destined, Destining, Doomed, Dooming). (various references)

Czech

urèit (allocate, appoint, assign, define, design, designate, determine, earmark, fix, identify, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will). (various references)

Danish

bestemme (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Dutch

uittrekken (earmark, emigrate, ordain), bestemmen (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Esperanto

destini (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Faeroese

ætla (conjecture, earmark, intend, mean, ordain, surmise). (various references)

Farsi 

مقدرکردن (Fortune, Ordain, Slate), قبلاانتخاب کردن , سرنوشت معین کردن . (various references)

French

destiner. (various references)

German

bestimmen (ordain, appoint, define, designate, determine, earmark, intend, specify). (various references)

Greek 

προορίζω (appropriate, design for, foreordain, intend for, predestinate, predestine, preordain). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליעד (allocate, appoint, assign, earmark, ordain, reserve), לעתד (make ready, prepare for the future, reserve). (various references)

Hungarian

szán (dray, to commiserate, to deplore, to intend), rendel (to destine, to place an order). (various references)

Indonesian

menentukan (decide, decisive, definitive, enactive). (various references)

Italian

destinare (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Korean 

예정하십시요 (intend). (various references)

Manx

kiarail (circumspection, cogitate, cogitation, design, determine, intend, intention, prepare; care, provide, provision, purport, purpose, purvey, resolution, resolve, vigilance). (various references)

Papiamen

destiná (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Pig Latin

estineday.(various references)

Polish

przeznaczyć (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Portuguese

reservar (reserve, earmark), destinar (earmark, ordain). (various references)

Romanian

destina (allocate, allot, appropriate, assign, design, doom into, intend, make, mean for), soroci (mean for, ordain), predestina (fate, foredoom, foreordain, ordain, predestinate, predestine, preordain), meni (fate, foredoom, intend, make, mean for, ordain), hotãrî (appoint, conclude, decide, determine, fix, give, judge, make, persuade, resolve, rule, seal, settle, state, stipulate, will), hãrãzi (dedicate to, give, intend). (various references)

Russian 

предназначать (allot, appropriate, design, earmark, intend, intend for, mean, reserve). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opredeliti (appropriate, decide, determine), odrediti (allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, cast, define, designate, detail, determine, fix, mark off, mark out, modify, order, peg, route, set, set by). (various references)

Spanish

destinar (apply, appropriate, intend, mean, post). (various references)

Swedish

bestämma (appoint, designate, determine), ämna (intend to). (various references)

Turkish

yöneltmek (aim, direct, impel, level, Orient, orientate, start, turn), nasip etmek (grant, ordain, predestinate, predestine), kaderinde olmak. (various references)

Welsh

tynghedu (adjure, fate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "destine": destined, destines. (additional references)

Words ending with "destine": clandestine, nonclandestine, predestine. (additional references)

Words containing "destine": clandestinely, clandestineness, clandestinenesses, predestined, predestines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Destine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adgestone, Adlestone, bestine, Cestine, Davstone, Dawstone, Denstone, Deschanel, desine, desinee, Dessein, destane, destene, desteni, Destina, destinee, destiner, destiney, desting, destino, detane, Diktene, disine, Distin, Durstine, Edlestone, Edstone, estien, festine, gesteine, Hesltine, nestine, teosinte. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: endites.

-1 letter: denies, dienes, endite, nested, seined, teinds, tensed.

-2 letters: deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, diene, diets, dines, dints, dites, edits, inset, needs, neist, nides, nites, seine, sente, senti, sited, snide, steed, stein, stied, teens, teind, tends, tense, tides, tined, tines.

-3 letters: dees, deet, dene, deni, dens, dent, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dite, dits.

+1 letter: andesite, dentines, desinent, destined, destines, detinues, dinettes, enlisted, infested, ingested, inserted, insetted, invested, listened, neediest, nerdiest, resident, sediment, signeted, sintered, tinseled, trendies.

+2 letters: amnestied, andesites, benedicts, datelines, dehiscent, deletions, dementias, dendrites, densities, denticles, deserting, desertion, designate, destained, destinies, detainees, detainers, detesting, devesting, dextrines, dissented, dissenter, distended, duvetines, entwisted, eternised, eventides, fetidness, glistened, indenters, indictees, inductees, inspected, intendeds, intenders, interbeds, mistended, moistened, monetised, pediments, president, residents, resinated, sectioned, sediments, stenciled, stiffened, stinkweed, stridence, tensioned, tepidness, teredines, tetanised, tinselled, tiredness, trendiest, witnessed.