chance🔊

An opportunity or possibility.

Random occurrence; luck.

The probability of something happening.

Probability; possibility.

(archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Happening by chance, casual.

(obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.

(archaic) To happen by chance, to occur.

(archaic) 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.