English dictionary
chance
adjectiveAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
noun
- a risk involving danger
noun
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
noun
- the possibility of future success
noun
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
verb
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
verb
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
verb
- be the case by chance
Example sentences
seek help from casual passers-by
a casual meeting
a chance occurrence
you take a chance when you let her drive
the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5
if that phone call is for me, chances are it's my wife
bad luck caused his downfall
we ran into each other by pure chance
his prospects as a writer are excellent
the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington
now is your chance
We find this idea in Plato
I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
When you buy these stocks you are gambling
I chanced to meet my old friend in the street