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chance

chance
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [chans, chahns]
    • /tʃæns, tʃɑns/
    • /tʃɑːns/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [chans, chahns]
    • /tʃæns, tʃɑns/

Definitions of chance word

  • variable noun chance If there is a chance of something happening, it is possible that it will happen. 3
  • countable noun chance If you have a chance to do something, you have the opportunity to do it. 3
  • adjective chance A chance meeting or event is one that is not planned or expected. 3
  • adjective chance Chance is also a noun. 3
  • verb chance If you chance to do something or chance on something, you do it or find it although you had not planned or tried to. 3
  • verb chance If you chance something, you do it even though there is a risk that you may not succeed or that something bad may happen. 3

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Origin of chance

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English < Old French chance, cheance < Vulgar Latin *cadentia a befalling, happening; see cadenza

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Chance

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

chance popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for chance

noun chance

  • prospect — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
  • outlook — the view or prospect from a particular place.
  • shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • opportunity — an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
  • odds — something that is odd.

verb chance

  • speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • attempt — If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
  • jeopardize — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
  • plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • wildcat — any of several North American felines of the genus Lynx. Compare lynx.

adjective chance

  • accidental — An accidental event happens by chance or as the result of an accident, and is not deliberately intended.
  • coincidental — Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
  • casual — If you are casual, you are, or you pretend to be, relaxed and not very concerned about what is happening or what you are doing.
  • fortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
  • unintended — purposed; designed; intentional: an intended snub.

Antonyms for chance

noun chance

  • bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
  • misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
  • reality — the state or quality of being real.
  • aim — If you aim for something or aim to do something, you plan or hope to achieve it.
  • unlikelihood — the state of being unlikely; improbability.

verb chance

  • abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  • understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
  • depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
  • leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.

adjective chance

  • planned — arranged, organized, or done in accordance with a plan: a planned attack.
  • designed — made or done intentionally; intended; planned.
  • foreseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.

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