DESTINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does destined mean? 

• DESTINED (adjective)
  The adjective DESTINED has 2 senses:

1. headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'

2. (usually followed by 'to') governed by fate

  Familiarity information: DESTINED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESTINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'

Synonyms:

bound; destined

Context example:

a flight destined for New York

Similar:

orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') governed by fate

Synonyms:

bound; destined

Context example:

he is destined to be famous

Similar:

certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)

 Context examples 

It was destined that on this very morning—our first in the new country—we were to find out what strange hazards lay around us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he was not destined to enjoy that bed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But it was destined to be resumed long before that hour, and in circumstances which gave me a shock hardly second to that caused by his spring to the door.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Derived from epithelial cells and destined to become a part of the muscular system; having the characteristics of both muscle and epithelium.

(Myoepithelial, NCI Thesaurus)

But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not destined to fall into the hands of justice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A stamp started it on its travels, but it was destined to receive many stamps and to be started on many travels in the months that followed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But it was destined that I should after all have a last word of greeting from my friend and comrade.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Refers to the state of being mortal (destined to die).

(Mortality, NCI Dictionary)

Once more, however, my friend was destined to be disappointed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come, we will sit there in peace to-night, though we should never more be destined to sit there together.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)