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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | chance, accidental, casual | Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance |
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| NOUN | 1 | chance, opportunity | A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances |
| 2 | chance, luck, fortune, hazard | An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | |
| 3 | chance | A risk involving danger | |
| 4 | chance, probability | A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur | |
| VERB | 1 | chance | Be the case by chance |
| 2 | chance, gamble, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance | Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | |
| 3 | chance, find, happen, bump, encounter | Come upon, as if by accident |
| Sounds | chae'ns |
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| Rhymes | advance, askance, circumstance, and 16 more rhymes in aens at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance. |
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| Examples | "a chance occurrence" |
| Synonyms | accidental, casual |
| Similar to | unplanned |
| Meaning | A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances. |
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| Examples | "now is your chance" |
| Synonyms | opportunity |
| Narrower | brass ring; day; fresh start, clean slate, tabula rasa; hearing, audience; hunting ground; occasion; opening; room; say; shot, crack; street; throw |
| Broader | possibility, possibleness |
| Verbs | chance |
| Meaning | An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another. |
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| Examples | "we ran into each other by pure chance" |
| Synonyms | luck, fortune, hazard |
| Narrower | bad luck, mischance, mishap; tossup, toss-up, even chance |
| Broader | phenomenon |
| Verbs | chance |
| Meaning | A risk involving danger. |
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| Examples | "you take a chance when you let her drive" |
| Broader | risk, peril, danger |
| Verbs | chance |
| Meaning | A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur. |
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| Examples | "we have a good chance of winning" |
| Synonyms | probability |
| Narrower | conditional probability, contingent probability; cross section; exceedance; fair chance, sporting chance; fat chance, slim chance; joint probability; risk, risk of exposure; risk, risk of infection |
| Broader | measure, quantity, amount |
| Meaning | Be the case by chance. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" |
| Narrower | happen |
| Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place |
| Nouns | chance; chance |
| Meaning | Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Synonyms | gamble, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance |
| Narrower | go for broke; luck it, luck through |
| Broader | try, seek, attempt, essay, assay |
| Nouns | chance |
| Meaning | Come upon, as if by accident. Meet with. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" |
| Synonyms | find, happen, bump, encounter |