kismet

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Definition

fate or destiny

kismet is of Arabic origin and means "the will of Allah" in the Islam religion.

• She thinks it is kismet that Islam should grow.

• I don't know if it was luck or kismet.
• KISMET Within two weeks Amory and Rosalind were deeply and passionately in love.
  F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  This Side of Paradise
• Yes, tell him it's Kismet.
  Rudyard Kipling  --  Kim
• Sometimes, kismet happens.
  Stephenie Meyer  --  New Moon
• I was dealing with destiny here, kismet, fate.
  Robert Cormier  --  After the First Death
• It was like kismet.
  J.D. Robb  --  Immortal in Death
• No man can escape his Kismet.
  Rudyard Kipling  --  Kim
• So maybe it wasn't kismet.
  Stephenie Meyer  --  New Moon
• It is my Kismet.
  Rudyard Kipling  --  Kim
• Kismet, mallum?
  Rudyard Kipling  --  Kim
• Seems to be what you call yashmak or I mean kismet.
  James Joyce  --  Ulysses
• Corns on his kismet however.
  James Joyce  --  Ulysses
• Kismet.
  James Joyce  --  Ulysses
• Kismet.
  James Joyce  --  Ulysses

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