fate

Noun

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • whatever my fortune may be
    
  • deserved a better fate
    
  • has a happy lot
    
  • the luck of the Irish
    
  • a victim of circumstances
    
  • success that was her portion
    

• the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
  • we are helpless in the face of destiny
    

• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

Verb

• decree or designate beforehand
  • She was destined to become a great pianist
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  fortune , destiny , luck , lot , circumstances , portion , destine , doom , designate