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Definition of kismet noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

kismet

noun
 
/ˈkɪzmet/
 
/ˈkɪzmet/
[uncountable] (literary)
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  1. the idea that everything that happens to you in your life is already decided and that you cannot do anything to change or control it synonym destiny, fate
    Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Turkish, from Arabic qisma ‘division, portion, lot’, from qasama ‘to divide’.
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