chance
IPA: tʃˈæns
noun
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
- An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
- A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
- A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
- A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
- A surname.
verb
- (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
- (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
- To try or risk.
- To discover something by chance.
- (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
- (Nigeria) To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
adjective
- Happening by chance, casual.
adverb
- (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.
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Examples of "chance" in Sentences
- I had a chance to see the guinea.
- The chances of this are infinitesimal.
- It reduces the chance of aberrant results.
- Abstinence virtually eliminates the chance.
- Spontaneity and chance are causes of effects.
- Fatalism is simply the denial of free will and chance.
- Therefore, there is realistically no chance in the universe.
- Carcinogens are substances that increase the chance of cancer.
- But the chance of misinformation exists by having the category.