chance
Meaning of chance
noun
- a possibility of something happening.
there is a chance of winning the raffle
there is little chance of his finding a job
- the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.
he met his brother by chance
- fortuitous; accidental.
a chance meeting
- do something by accident or without intending to.
he was very effusive if they chanced to meet
- do (something) despite its being dangerous or of uncertain outcome.
they chanced a late holiday
Middle English: from Old French cheance, from cheoir ‘fall, befall’, based on Latin cadere .
Information about chance
- The plural form of chance is: chances.
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Hyphenation of chance
chance
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- chance is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
chance synonyms
Meaning accidental:
Meaning opportunity:
Meaning luck:
Meaning probability:
Meaning prospect:
Meaning gamble:
gamble, risk, hazard, adventure
Meaning find:
Meaning a thing that may happen or be the case:
Meaning the chances or likelihood of something happening or being the case:
Meaning the state or fact of something's being likely; probability:
Meaning a strong belief that something will happen or be the case:
Meaning the action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction:
Meaning the state or degree of being easily or conveniently done:
Meaning the quality of seeming reasonable or probable:
Meaning the possibility of trouble, danger, or ruin:
Meaning a person or thing that is likely to cause harm; a threat or danger:
Meaning the possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant happening:
Meaning the likelihood of something unwelcome happening:
Meaning serious and immediate danger:
Meaning the state of being legally responsible for something:
Meaning a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen:
Meaning a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen:
Meaning an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause:
Meaning a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection:
Meaning the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way:
Meaning the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power:
Meaning the hidden power believed to control future events; fate:
Meaning a chance occurrence:
Meaning the protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power:
Meaning a very unusual and unexpected event or situation:
Meaning coincidence:
Meaning by chance rather than intention:
Meaning by chance; inadvertently:
Meaning in a way that results from chance despite being very unlikely:
Meaning not on purpose:
Meaning without intention; accidentally:
Meaning without being aware; unintentionally:
Meaning without being aware of something; unintentionally:
Meaning without being aware of a situation:
Meaning without realizing or being aware of one's actions:
Meaning undertake a risky or daring journey or course of action:
Meaning make an attempt or effort to do something:
Meaning attempt or try:
chance antonyms
Meaning the state or fact of not being likely to happen, be done, or be true:
Meaning deliberately; on purpose:
Meaning in a way that suggests one has secret knowledge or awareness:
Translation of chance
- German: Gelegenheit, Möglichkeit
- Spanish: oportunidad, probabilidad, posibilidad
- French: opportunité, occasion
- Italian: opportunità, possibilità
- Portuguese: oportunidade, chance
Words that rhyme with chance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance
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