Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) chance
  2. (feminine) opportunity
  3. (feminine) probability

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɑns/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch canse, borrowed from Old Northern French caance (compare central cheance), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from cadere (“to fall”), referring to the falling of dice. Doublet of cadans, cadens, and sjans. Cognate with French chance, English chance.

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