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Definition chance

Etymology 1

From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French chance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.

Noun

chance (countable and uncountable, plural chances)

1. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
2. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
3. (countable) The probability of something happening.
4. (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Adjective

chance (not comparable)

1. Happening by chance, casual.

Adverb

chance (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

chance (third-person singular simple present chances, present participle chancing, simple past and past participle chanced)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
2. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
3. To try or risk.
4. To discover something by chance.
5. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

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