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destiny
English
Etymology
From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin d?stin? (English destine).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?st?ni/
Noun
destiny (plural destinies)
- That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will
- Synonyms: fate, lot
- That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
- Synonym: fate
Synonyms
- fate
- orlay
Derived terms
- date with destiny
Related terms
- destinate
- destination
- destine
Translations
See also
- doom
See also
- destination
References
- destiny in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- density
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casualty
English
Etymology
From casual, from Middle French casuel, from Medieval Latin casualitas and Late Latin c?su?lis (“happening by chance”), from Latin c?sus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”). Originally meaning “a chance event” (compare casual, as in “casual encounter”), it developed a negative meaning as “an unfortunate event”, especially the loss of a person.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ka?(?)?lti/
Noun
casualty (countable and uncountable, plural casualties)
- Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,[1]
- The course of his education was like that of others, such as put him little in the way of extraordinary casualties.
- 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,[1]
- A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
- (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
- (Britain) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
- An incidental charge or payment.
- Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
- (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
- , NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
- The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude […]
- , NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
Usage notes
The term casualty is sometimes used to mean “a killed person”; in more careful use this is referred to as a fatality, and casualty instead means “killed or injured”.
Synonyms
- (something that happens by chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (hospital's accident and emergency):
- emergency / emergency room / emergency department / emergency ward / E. R./E.R./ER
- casualty department / casualty ward
- accident and emergency / A&E
Hyponyms
- fatality
Derived terms
- casualty department
- casualty event
- casualty ward
Related terms
- casual
Translations
References
- “casualty”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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