ALL meanings of chance
chance
C c - 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
- noun chance the unknown and unpredictable element that causes an event to result in a certain way rather than another, spoken of as a real force 3
- noun chance (as modifier) 3
- noun chance fortune; luck; fate 3
- noun chance an opportunity or occasion 3
- noun chance a risk; gamble 3
- noun chance the extent to which an event is likely to occur; probability 3
- noun chance an unpredicted event, esp a fortunate one 3
- noun chance an unlucky event; mishap 3
- verb chance to risk; hazard 3
- verb chance to happen by chance; be the case by chance 3
- noun chance the happening of events without apparent cause, or the apparent absence of cause or design; fortuity; luck 3
- noun chance an unpredictable event or accidental happening 3
- noun chance a risk or gamble 3
- noun chance a ticket in a lottery or raffle 3
- noun chance an advantageous or opportune time or occasion; opportunity 3
- noun chance a possibility or probability 3
- noun chance a mishap; mischance 3
- noun chance an opportunity to field a ball on which a fielder is credited with a putout or assist, or charged with an error 3
- adjective chance happening by chance; accidental 3
- intransitive verb chance to have the fortune, good or bad 3
- intransitive verb chance to happen by chance 3
- verb transitive chance to leave to chance; risk 3
- noun chance Fortuitous; accidental. 1
- noun chance not design 1
- noun chance opportunity 1
- noun chance probability 1
- noun chance fate 1
- noun chance attempt 1
- adjective chance fortuitous 1
- noun chance the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all. 1
- noun chance accidental 1
- noun chance luck or fortune: a game of chance. 1
- transitive verb chance risk 1
- noun chance a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty-percent chance of success. 1
- noun chance an opportune or favorable time; opportunity: Now is your chance. 1
- noun chance Baseball. an opportunity to field the ball and make a put-out or assist. 1
- noun chance a risk or hazard: Take a chance. 1
- noun chance a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing: The charity is selling chances for a dollar each. 1
- noun chance chances, probability: The chances are that the train hasn't left yet. 1
- noun chance Midland and Southern U.S. a quantity or number (usually followed by of). 1
- noun chance Archaic. an unfortunate event; mishap. 1
- verb without object chance to happen or occur by chance: It chanced that our arrivals coincided. 1
- verb with object chance to take the chances or risks of; risk (often followed by impersonal it): I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome. 1
- adjective chance not planned or expected; accidental: a chance occurrence. 1