Other forms: destinies
Destiny is the future believed to be already written for you. Not what you choose — what was always going to happen.
The word assumes something doing the writing, whether fate, the gods or the pattern of a story, which is why it belongs to myth, prophecy and speeches. It is warmer and grander than fate, which usually arrives with bad news attached. Everyday English keeps it in a few phrases, since meeting your destiny and being master of your own destiny both turn up constantly. The adjective is destined, as in destined to fail.
1noundestinyThe events already fixed for someone in the future.
“He believed it was his destiny to go to sea.”
Latin
destino
Old French
destinee
Middle English
destine
English, today
destiny
From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin destino (English destine). wyrd.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA