destinies in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for destinies in the English»French Dictionary

destiny [Brit ˈdɛstɪni, Am ˈdɛstɪni] N

destiny (past events)

destin m

destiny (future events)

destinée f

it was her destiny to become queen

son destin était de devenir reine

nobody knows her/his destiny

personne ne connaît sa destinée

a man of destiny (saviour)

un envoyé du destin

a man of destiny (full of promise)

un homme destiné à un grand avenir

Destiny had decreed that…

le destin avait décrété que…

manifest destiny

manifest destiny N Am HISTORY:

manifest destiny

destinée f manifeste

manifest destiny Info

manifest destiny

Expression inventée par le journaliste John O'Sullivan en 1845. Elle exprime le fait que les Américains, fiers de leurs idéaux de liberté et de poursuite du bonheur, ainsi que de l'expérience unique de leur civilisation, estiment que leur devoir moral, leur ‘destinée manifeste’, est d'en faire bénéficier l'humanité tout entière.

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evil act, destiny, intent, genius, smell, tongue, temper

mauvais

plot episode, story, destiny

inventer

Translations for destinies in the French»English Dictionary

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destin

destiny

prendre son destin en main

to take control of one's (own) destiny

destinée

destiny

destinée d'un peuple/d'un projet

destiny of a people/a project

présider aux destinées d'une entreprise/d'un club

to control a company's/club's destiny

prendre en main les destinées du pays

to take control of the country's destiny

être maître de son (propre) destin

to be master of one's destiny

devenir/redevenir maître de son destin

to take/regain control of one's destiny

destinies in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for destinies in the English»French Dictionary

destiny [ˈdestɪni] N

destiny

destin m

to be a victim of destiny

être une victime du destin

to escape one's destiny

échapper à son destin

to fight against destiny

lutter contre le destin

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live out one's destiny

décider de

play out destiny

suivre

Translations for destinies in the French»English Dictionary

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destinée d'une personne, d'un peuple, d'une œuvre

destiny

vocation d'une personne, d'un peuple

destiny

être maître de son destin

to be master of one's destiny

destinies Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be a victim of destiny

être une victime du destin

to escape one's destiny

échapper à son destin

to fight against destiny

lutter contre le destin

to be master of one's destiny

être maître de son destin

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

They each have different powers, destinies, and dark sides.

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He's very ambitious and egoistic, and organizes trips to cheap destinies.

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The holy well became a site of pilgrimage, at which the movement of fish within its waters was believed to indicate lovers' destinies.

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Despite the strained relations between the neighbors, the destinies of the two families are fatefully interconnected.

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Such style elements also gave him the illusion of having, as it were, delivered his characters' destinies into their own keeping.

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Fate gives us an inexorable repertory of determinate possibilities, that is, it gives us different destinies.

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This marks the beginning of their intertwined destinies.

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It teaches youth to think positively, graduate high school, and control their own destinies.

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The pair soon find their destinies increasingly entwined with that of the circus.

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