LekhoriLekhoriAn opportunity or possibility.
We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.
The probability of something happening.
There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
Happening by chance, casual.
No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.
Perchance; perhaps.
To happen by chance, to occur.
It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
To befall; to happen to.
An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to...
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[…] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]