Meaning of chance in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• An opportunity or possibility.

  Example: We had the chance to meet the president last week.

• Random occurrence; luck.

  Example: Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?

• The probability of something happening.

  Example: There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.

• What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

adjective

• Happening by chance, casual.

adverb

• Perchance; perhaps.

verb

• To happen by chance, to occur.

  Example: It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.

• To befall; to happen to.

• To try or risk.

  Example: Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?

• To discover something by chance.

  Example: He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.

• (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

  Example: The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.