chances

noun

(countable) An opportunity or possibility.

(uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.

(countable) The probability of something happening.

(in plural as chances) probability; possibility.

A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.

A surname.

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.

An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.

An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.

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

verb

To try or risk.

To discover something by chance.

(Nigeria) To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.

(Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

(archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.

(archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.

adjective

Happening by chance, casual.

adverb

(obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.

Roots

cadochanc- · Latin · fall

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