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Definition: Destine |
DestineVerb1. 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: DestineSynonyms: designate (v), doom (v), fate (v), intend (v), specify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Destine |
| English words defined with "destine": designate, Destinate, Destining ♦ intend ♦ mean ♦ specify. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "destine": Obstinate. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Destine romantice (1981) | |
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Health | Genes do not destine people to a lifetime of obesity, however. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "destine" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Destine | Last name | 170 | 52,180 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
destine | 33 |
destine fl | 10 |
destine florida | 8 |
destine el m paranoia | 4 |
beach destine | 3 |
child destine | 2 |
clan destine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "destine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation 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) | |
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"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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: endites. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-s-t" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-s-t" | |
+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. | |
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