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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



... Trading Company undertakes to raise a loan of 500,000 yen. After the Agreement is signed and sealed by the contracting parties the Japanese Central Bank shall hand over 3/10 of the loan as the first instalment. When Chang Yao Ching and his associates arrive at their proper destination the sum of 150,000 yen shall be paid over as the second instalment. When final arrangements are made the third and last instalment of ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

... unaware of anything that lay beyond the hedges, pressed on every side by other members of the flock; getting perhaps a certain satisfaction out of the deep warm stir of the collective life, but ignorant of your destination, and with your personal initiative limited to the snatching of grass as you went along, the pushing of your way to the softer side of the track. These operation? made up together that which you called Success. But now, because you have achieved a certain ...
— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill

... the language of hell before they arrive at their awful destination. Were God to answer their imprecations they would be miserable beyond conception. 'Because of swearing the ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... through Masailand; but he now threw himself into the breach, quickly travelled from England to the Niger, and by his unrivalled experience alike of the means of travel and of native ways, managed to frame treaties with the Sultans of Sokoto and Gando, before the German envoy reached his destination (1885). The energy of the National African Company and the promptitude and tact of Mr. Thomson secured for his countrymen undisputed access to Lake Chad and the great country peopled by the ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... the fertility of its soil and the industry of its inhabitants, and interesting from its churches, monasteries, and curious old villages. The travellers crossed the Meuse at Maestricht and reached their destination before nightfall. Wittem is a small town, thirty miles east of St. Trond and about ten west of Aix-la-chapelle. This part of Holland is entirely Catholic, and its people possess a fervor which has sent missionaries to the ends of the earth. Everywhere shrines were to be ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott


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