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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students';
- Example: "children bound for school"
- Example: "a flight destined for New York"
[syn: bound, destined]

2. (usually followed by `to') governed by fate;
- Example: "bound to happen"
- Example: "an old house destined to be demolished"
- Example: "he is destined to be famous"
[syn: bound(p), destined]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Destine \Des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Destined; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Destining.] [F. destiner, L. destinare; de + the root of
   stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Obstinate.]
   To determine the future condition or application of; to set
   apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by
   destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or
   preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object
   preceded by to or for.
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         We are decreed,
         Reserved, and destined to eternal woe.   --Milton.
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         Till the loathsome opposite
         Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. --Tennyson.
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         Not enjoyment and not sorrow
         Is our destined end or way.              --Longfellow.

   Syn: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend;
        devote; consecrate; doom.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

destined
    adj 1: headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often
           used as a combining form as in `college-bound students';
           "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New
           York" [syn: bound, destined]
    2: (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to
       happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is
       destined to be famous" [syn: bound(p), destined]