Definition of Fates

1. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis; supernatural beings who controlled the destiny of men and of the gods. ¹

2. Noun. (plural of fate) ¹

3. Verb. (rare) (third-person singular of fate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fates

1. fate [v] - See also: fate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fates

Fasciolopsis
Fasciolopsis buski
Fasciolopsis rathouisi
Fascism
Fast of Ab
Fast of Av
Fat Man
Fat Tuesday
Fata Morgana
Fata Morganas
Fatah
Fatah-RC
Fatah Revolutionary Council
Fatah Tanzim
Fate
Fates
Father's Day
Father-God
Father Brown
Father Christmas
Father Frost
Father Sky
Father Time
Father of Heaven
Father of Heaven and Earth
Father of Lies
Father of the Church
Father of the Submarine
Fathometers

Literary usage of Fates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pantheon: Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and by François Pomey (1784)
"... receive their Deaths impartially from the three fates; after Death they receive their Condemnation impartially from the three Judges; and, ..."

2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"With fates averse, the rout in arms resort To force their monarch, ... Before our farther way the fates allow, Here must we fix on high the golden bough. ..."

3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"These, with clear-sounding voice, as they combed out the wool, outpoured fates of such kind in sacred song, in song which none age yet to come could tax ..."

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