chance

Meaning

Noun

1. An opportunity or possibility.
2. Random occurrence; luck.
3. The probability of something happening.
4. probability; possibility.
5. What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Adj

Happening by chance, casual.

Adv

Perchance; perhaps.

Verb

1. To happen by chance, to occur.
2. To befall; to happen to.
3. To try or risk.
4. To discover something by chance.
5. To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
6. To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.

Concepts

chance

opportunity

luck

occasion

fortune

accident

accidental

hazard

fate

possibility

random

probability

fortuity

risk

casual

fortuitous

happen

coincidence

destiny

incident

event

accidence

adventitious

odds

opening

occurrence

prospect

occurence

instance

lot

venture

adventure

gamble

incidental

contingent

haphazard

likelihood

cue

fluke

take a chance

eventuality

contingency

case

betide

hap

stray

potential

unexpectedly

good opportunity

moment

excuse

impetus

motive

start

time

means

circumstance

scope

fortuitousness

arise

run a risk

take chances

come about

peradventure

shot

coincidental

good fortune

feasibility

opportune moment

unplanned

favorable circumstance

favourable circumstance

suddenly

chink

suitable time

at that time

jeopardy

peril

undertaking

method

doom

predestination

unintentional

lottery

privilege

room

accidental encounter

come forth

face

take place

break

die

go

look-in

pot luck

question

show

squeak

upcast

compromise

endanger

imperil

jeopardize

bargain

sale

presumption

verisimilitude

vraisemblance

go on

bechance

befall

fall out

transpire

turn up

concurrence

circumstantial

occasional

scratch

chanceful

hope

merit

gap

innings

facility

come across

come upon

fall upon

conceivability

conceivableness

happy chance

lifeline

possibleness

potency

stake

fall

hurt

occur

smart

supervene

chance event

co-occurrence

happenstance

supervention

toss-up

tossup

accidentally

by chance

by luck

fortuitously

haply

caulking

commissure

joint

meeting

raphe

rhaphe

seam

suture

expectedness

likeliness

sort

practical

beginning

handle

origination

outset

prelude

pretext

unexpected

randomicity

good chance

outlook

bump

encounter

find

arbitrary

randomness

freedom

meet

blessing

damaged

used

act

deed

happening

trouble

example

crisis

bed

space

aim

right

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃæns/

Etymology

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