destined
Someone who's destined is fated or meant to do something. If your mom says you're destined for a life on the stage, she means that it's certain you'll be an actor one day.
Being destined for something can be great luck — if, for example, you're destined to be a millionaire. It can also mean something closer to "doomed," as you might be if you're destined to a string of bad luck after breaking a mirror and seeing a black cat run past at the exact same moment. The Old French root is destinée, "purpose, intent, fate, or destiny."
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governed by fate
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headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'“a flight destined for New York”synonyms: boundorientated, orientedadjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination
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Arnold Spirit, Jr., a young cartoonist who lives on the Spokane Indian reservation, decides to transfer to a school in which he will be the only American Indian student.
For falling in love with a human princess, a mouse named Despereaux Tilling is sentenced to death in a rat-filled dungeon.
Kambili and Jaja's life among the elite in Nigeria isn't so easy under the thumb of their oppressive father. When the country becomes mired in political turmoil, they are sent to stay with their aunt, where they learn a different way of life.