Kismet

Definitions

1. An unincorporated community in Madera County, California.
2. Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
   uncountable, usually
3. A small city in Seward County, Kansas.
4. A hamlet in Suffolk County, New York.

Equivalents

Examples

“But these things are kismet, and we only find⟳ out all about them just when any knowledge is too late.”

“"Golly!" he cried. "I'm awfully sorry, Bo'sun, but you're It. You're luck's clean⟳ out to-day. What rotten Kismet you do have⟳. The Lot fell on you all right, smack in the middle of your chest."”

“But at this point⟳ fickle Kismet, who for a day had played with him bitterly and sardonically, decided to reward⟳ him in full for the amusement he had afforded her. Kismet turned the tawny eyes of the snake-charmer to the camel. Kismet led her to lean⟳ toward the man beside her and say⟳, "Who's that? That camel?"”

“Sexualised Catholicism, at the dawn of MTV, was Madonna’s first stroke of kismet.”

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