Other forms: destinations
A destination is the place you are trying to get to. Final destination, a holiday destination, reach your destination.
In travel marketing a destination is a place worth going for its own sake, which is why destination wedding and destination restaurant both mean somewhere you travel to on purpose. Note destiny, from the same Latin root meaning to make firm — a destination is where you are settled on going.
1noundestinationThe place you are trying to get to.
“After twelve hours on the road, we finally reached our destination.”
destination is a place.
Latin destinatio comes from destinare, to make firm or determine, from stare, to stand. Destiny and obstinate come from the same standing.
Latin
dēstinātiō
English, today
destination
Built from
From Latin dēstinātiō, from dēstinō (“to destine”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA