chance
noun
[ tʃɑːns ]
• a possibility of something happening.
• "there is a chance of winning the raffle"
Similar:
possibility,
prospect,
probability,
odds,
likelihood,
likeliness,
expectation,
anticipation,
conceivability,
feasibility,
plausibility,
risk,
threat,
menace,
hazard,
danger,
fear,
peril,
liability,
hope,
opportunity,
promise,
• the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.
• "he met his brother by chance"
Similar:
accident,
coincidence,
serendipity,
fate,
a twist of fate,
destiny,
fortuity,
fortune,
providence,
freak,
hazard,
a piece of good fortune,
(a bit of) luck,
(a bit of) good luck,
a fluke,
a happy chance,
happenstance,
fortuitously,
by accident,
accidentally,
coincidentally,
serendipitously,
unintentionally,
inadvertently,
unwittingly,
unknowingly,
unawares,
unconsciously,
chance
adjective
• fortuitous; accidental.
• "a chance meeting"
chance
verb
• 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"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French cheance, from cheoir ‘fall, befall’, based on Latin cadere .
