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Destination   /dˌɛstənˈeɪʃən/  /dˌɛstɪnˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Destination  n.  
1.
The act of destining or appointing.
2.
Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
3.
The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
Synonyms: Appointment; design; purpose; intention; destiny; lot; fate; end.





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"Destination" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed half a dozen of the boats bound to the reef; but when she reached her destination, there were not less than twenty craft, of all sorts and sizes, on the fishing-ground, huddled into a heap, near the spot where the luckless Waldo had gone down. The secret was out. A fisherman going off to the deep water, on the morning before, had seen Leopold's boat near the ...
— The Coming Wave - The Hidden Treasure of High Rock • Oliver Optic
... the house stood. Harold, a much more comfortable figure in his natural costume than he had been when made up by Eustace, was truly putting his shoulder to the wheel, with a great lever, so that every effort aided the struggling horses, and brought the whole nearer to its destination. ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... seven years in Van Dieman's Land, and then passed on to its destination, leaving a number of men, who had received their discharge, to become settlers in the colony. Among these was Mr. Michael Blake, who soon established himself on a block of land, and became a prosperous colonist. But times grew bad, ere he could retire with a fortune. His ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor
... the Doctor swelled and quickened as he looked upon the ocean of upturned faces below, and realized that from his fertile brain had sprung the mighty object of all this attention. How it pulled and surged at its silver-like cable, as if it were a thing of life, and desired to be away toward its destination, the North Pole! ...
— Doctor Jones' Picnic • S. E. Chapman
... roadside at the edge of a grove of olive trees. It marked the beginning of the domain of El-Largani. When Domini saw it she looked at Androvsky, and his eyes answered her silent question. The coachman whipped his horses into a canter, as if he were in haste to reach his destination. He was thinking of the good red wine of the monks. In a cloud of white dust the carriage rolled onwards between vineyards in which, here and there, labourers were working, sheltered from the sun by immense straw hats. A ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens


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