chance
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Is chance a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of chance?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.Examples: "We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit."; "There was a fat/slim chance that my letter would arrive in time."; "If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet.""countable
2. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.Examples: "Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?"Synonyms: fortune, hap, adventure, accident, casualty, chance, chance-medley, fortuneuncountable
3. (countable) The probability of something happening.Examples: "There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow."countable
4. (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.Examples: "Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky. If "Chua" is ill, the chances are that there are certain spirits who do not like his name, so the parents alter his name to "Mee," or something else, and then he gets well again."Synonyms: eventuality, chance, contingency, contingent, eventuality, possibility, potentialitycountablepluraluncountable
5. (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.Examples: "Wild-visag'd Wanderer! ah for thy heavy chance!"Synonyms: destiny, doom, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fatearchaiccountable
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.not-comparableobsolete
verb (English)
1. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.Examples: "It chanced that I found a solution the very next day."; "if a bird's nest chance to be before thee"; "Once […] it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely, a Prelate rather troublesome to our Abbot, made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford."archaicintransitive
2. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.Examples: "[…] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]"archaictransitive
3. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.Examples: "The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman."; "Be prepared to engage in protests of all businesses nationwide who are violating the copyright act and chancing our members."Synonyms: deceiveBelize
4. (Nigeria) To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.Nigeria
Definition source: Wiktionary