Dictionary Definition
destination
Noun
1 the place designated as the end (as of a race
or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly
exhuasted as their destination came into view" [syn: finish, goal]
2 the ultimate goal for which something is done
[syn: terminus]
3 written directions for finding some location;
written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that
location [syn: address,
name and
address]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From destinationem, from destinare.Pronunciation
- (UK) /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
Usage notes
- Often used attributively to indicate desirability, as "a destination resort."
Translations
the act of destining or appointing
purpose for which anything is destined
the place set for the end of a journey, or to
which something is sent
- Chinese: 目的地 (mùdìdì)
- Dutch: bestemming
- Finnish: matkakohde, määränpää
- French: arrivée
- German: Reiseziel
- Greek: προορισμός (proorismós)
- Hebrew: יעד (ya'ad)
- Italian: destinazione
- Japanese: 目的地 (mokutekichi)
- Korean: 목적지
- Spanish: destino
- Telugu: గమ్యస్థానం (gamyasthaanam)
Extensive Definition
Destination was a disco studio group from New York who had
two chart entries: "Move On Up" / "Up Up Up" / "Destination's
Theme," which spent four weeks at #1 on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979, and : "My Number
One Request"/"From Mortishia To Gomez Addams" (which consisted of
parts from the original
Addams Family theme song) spent three weeks at #1 on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1980. A trio,
Destination consisted of Danny Lugo, Kathleen
Bradley and Love Chyle Theus.
See also
destination in Japanese: Destination
(FictionJunction YUUKA)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Friday,
Friday the thirteenth, Z,
address, aim, anchorage, apodosis, appointed lot, astral
influences, astrology,
billhead, book of fate,
bourn, butt, by-end, by-purpose, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, constellation, consummation, crack of
doom, culmination,
cup, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destiny, dies funestis, direction, doom, effect, end, end in view, end point,
ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fatality, fate, final cause, final solution,
final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, foredoom, fortune, future, game, goal, harbor, haven, ides of March, inevitability, izzard, kismet, last, last breath, last gasp, last
stop, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, mark, moira, name and address, object, object in mind, objective, omega, payoff, period, peroration, planets, port, portion, postal zone, prey, pursuit, quarry, quietus, quintain, reason for being,
resolution, resting
place, stars, stop, stoppage, stopping place,
superscription,
swan song, target,
teleology, term, terminal, terminal point,
termination,
terminus, ultimate aim,
unlucky day, weird, wheel
of fortune, will of Heaven, windup, zip code, zone