Fates

Definition: Fates

Fates

Noun

1. A group of 3 goddesses of destiny.

Date "Fates" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Fates

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of the fates, unnecessary disagreements and unhappiness is foretold. For a young woman to dream of juggling with fate, denotes she will daringly interpose herself between devoted friends or lovers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Fates (1 syl.). The cruel fates. The Greeks and Romans supposed there were three Parcæ or Fates, who arbitrarily controlled the birth, events, and death of every man. They are called cruel because they pay no regard to the wishes and requirements of anyone. The three Fates were Clotho (who held the distaff), Lachesis (who spun the thread of life), and Atropos (who cut it off when life was ended). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Fates

Synonym: the Fates (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fates

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Necessity	Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fates

English words defined with "Fates": Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, Doomsday ♦ Judgement Day, Judgment Day ♦ Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment ♦ Norn, Norna ♦ The Destinies, the Fates, the Three Weird Sisters, the Weird Sisters ♦ Weird sisters. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Fates": Bifrost ♦ Doomstead ♦ Fates ♦ Nornir ♦ Real Soon Now ♦ Web of Life. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fates

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There are fates worse than death, Raziel. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig)
Movie/TV Titles	Tangled Fates (1916) The Fates and Flora Fourflush (1914) As the Fates Decree (1912) A Tangle of Fates (1911) Their Fates Sealed (1911)
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Commercial Usage: Fates

Domain	Title
Books	Alto Rhapsody, Song of Destiny, Nanie and Song of the Fates in Full Score (reference) Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s (reference) Golden Dreams : A Science For Mystery of Fates (Page I) Peace. (reference) Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects (reference) The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Fates Warning: Pleasant Shade of Gray - Live (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Image Slideshow: Fates

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Familiar Quotations: Fates

Author	Quotation
Homer	The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
	Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two fates of dread death.
Seneca	The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Virgil	Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Fates

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The fates are very cruel to some and too lavish or too careful to others.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fates

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Uruguay	By year's end, the Commission had discovered the fates of up to 16 missing Uruguayans; with the families' permission results in 8 cases were released to the press. (references)
Worker Rights	Marshall Islands	The eventual destination and fates of undocumented alien residents and prostitutes are unknown. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Fates

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Our individual fates are linked, our futures intertwined.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Fates

"Fates" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fates" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	119	29,501

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Fates

Expression using "Fates": the fates. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fates

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
fates warning	195	assembly fates	3
fates	73	fates shadowed	3
duel of the fates	32	fates friedrich holderlin	3
three fates	29	altered fates	3
defiance fates	24	duel fates music video	3
fates greek mythology	16	fates warning lyrics	3
fates number	10	fates greek mythology three	3
collide fates when	9	duel fates music	3
fates mythology	8	fates picture	2
duel fates lyrics	8	fates mp3 warning	2
fates greek	7	discography fates warning	2
fates warning tab	5	fates warning.com	2
star war duel of fates	4	fates union	2
duel fates midi	4	fates picture three	2
duel of the fates mp3	3	cover fates warning	2
3 fates	3	collide fates	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fates

Language		Translations for "Fates"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الزرائب (the fates). (various references)

Chinese		命运 (Destinies, Destiny, Fate). (various references)

French		les parques (the fates). (various references)

German		Schicksale (destinies). (various references)

Hungarian		sors istennői, párkák. (various references)

Korean		운명 (Destinies, Destiny, DOOM, Dooms, Fate, mortal). (various references)

Manx		Mraane-jee ny h-erreeyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		atesfay

Swedish		ödesgudinnorna (destinies, the fates). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fates

Derivations
	Words ending with "Fates": bisulfates, califates, kalifates, sulfates, thiosulfates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fates" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aftet, faches, Faees, faesc, fantes, Fatae, fatah, fatals, fatass, fatels, fatens, fatex, fatey, fatias, fatie, faties, fatnes, Fatou, fatseas, fatte, Fatteh, fattys, fatue, fatum, fatus, faute, faves, fayes, fayte, faytes, fayts, Feates, feraten, Fetisov, Fettis, flates, foftes, frates, ftes, Futas, futes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fates"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Fates" (pronounced fā"ts)
3	-ā" t s	abates, annotates, Ates, awaits, baits, Bates, Cates, conflates, conjugates, crates, creates, dates, debates, dictates, eights, equates, estates, gates, grates, greats, hates, inflates, mates, misstates, narrates, negates, pates, plates, predates, procreates, rates, relates, restates, sates, skates, slates, spates, States, straights, straits, traits, translates, updates, waits, weights.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Fates

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: feast, feats, fetas.
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-s-t"
	-1 letter: ates, east, eats, efts, etas, fast, fate, fats, feat, feta, fets, safe, sate, seat, seta, teas.
	-2 letters: aft, ate, eat, efs, eft, eta, fas, fat, fet, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tea.
	-3 letters: ae, as, at, ef, es, et, fa, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-s-t"
	+1 letter: afters, defats, facets, fasted, fasten, faster, feasts, festal, fiesta, safest, safety, strafe.
	+2 letters: affects, afreets, bedfast, daftest, deafest, defeats, fainest, fairest, falsest, falters, fanjets, fastens, fasters, fastest, fathers, fatless, fatness, fatsoes, fattens, fattest, fatties, faucets, feasted, feaster, featest, fetials, fiestas, fissate, fixates, flasket, folates, fossate, fraters, fretsaw, gabfest, haffets, hafters, rafters, restaff, shafted, staffed, staffer, strafed, strafer, strafes, sulfate, taffies, wafters.
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