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English

Alternative forms

• chaunce (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æns/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [t????ns], [t??e?ns]
  • (Northern England, General Australian, Ireland) IPA^(key): [t??æns], [t??ans]
• IPA^(key): /t???ns/
  • (Received Pronunciation, Cockney) IPA^(key): [t????ns]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [t????ns]
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Etymology 1

From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French chance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.

Noun

chance (countable and uncountable, plural chances)

1. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.

2. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.

3. (countable) The probability of something happening.

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

Synonyms

• (random occurrence): fortune, hap; see also Thesaurus:luck

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

chance (not comparable)

1. Happening by chance, casual.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. VI, The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centennial Edition)

     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.

Translations

Adverb

chance (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

chance (third-person singular simple present chances, present participle chancing, simple past and past participle chanced)

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

   • if a bird's nest chance to be before thee

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     Once […] it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely, a Prelate rather troublesome to our Abbot, made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."

2. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
3. To try or risk.

   Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?

   • 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes

     He does chance it in stocks, but he's always played on the square, if you call stocks gambling.

4. To discover something by chance.

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

Synonyms

• (to happen) come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
• (to happen to)
• (to try) test
• (to discover something) come across, come on, come upon, encounter, stumble upon
• (to cheat someone) deceive, fool, trick; See also Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

• bechance
• chance on
• chance one's arm
• chance upon

Translations

References

• chance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad? (“I fall, I die”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [????s?]

Noun

chance c (singular definite chancen, plural indefinite chancer)

1. A chance

Antonyms

• risiko

French

Etymology

From Old French chance, cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad?ns, from cad? (“I fall, I die”). Doublet of cadence, borrowed from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

chance f (plural chances)

1. chance
2. luck

Antonyms

• adversité
• guigne (familiar)
• malchance
• malheur

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: kans
• ? Dutch: sjans
• ? German: Chance
• ? Persian: ????? (šâns)
• ? Polish: szansa
• ? Romanian: ?ans?
• ? Turkish: ?ans

Related terms

• choir

Further reading

• “chance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• scians

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadenza.

Noun

chance f (invariable)

1. chance (possibility of a certain outcome)

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad?ns, from cad? (“I fall, I die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?an.ts?/

Noun

chance f (oblique plural chances, nominative singular chance, nominative plural chances)

1. chance; fate
2. (rare) a throw of a die

Related terms

• cheoir

Descendants

• ? English: chance
  • Japanese: ???? (chansu) (borrowed)
• French: chance
  • ? Danish: chance
  • ? Italian: chance
  • ? Portuguese: chance
  • ? Romanian: ?ans?
  • ? Spanish: chance
  • ? Turkish: ?ans

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cheance, supplement)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (chance)
• chance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadência.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /????.s?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /????.si/, [????.s??]

Noun

chance f (plural chances)

1. probability
2. chance, opportunity

   Synonym: oportunidade

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance or, in Mexico, from English chance. Doublet of cadencia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?t??an?e/, [?t??ãn?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?t??anse/, [?t??ãn.se]

Noun

chance m or f (plural chances)

1. chance

Conjunction

chance

1. (Mexico) maybe, perchance, perhaps or possibly

   Synonyms: a lo mejor, quizá, quizás, tal vez

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd.v?nt/, /?æd.v?nt/

Noun

advent (plural advents)

1. arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears

   • Death's dreadful advent

   • 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, ?ISBN, page 3:

     At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51–52:

     Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.

Synonyms

• (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset

Derived terms

Related terms

• advene
• adventure

Translations

Czech

Etymology

Latin adventus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?adv?nt]
• Hyphenation: ad?vent

Noun

advent m inan

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• advent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adv?nt/, [?að?v?n?d?]

Noun

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

1. Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch advent, from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?f?nt/
• Hyphenation: ad?vent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

advent m (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)

Derived terms

• adventskaars
• adventskalender
• adventstijd

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Advent
• ? Indonesian: adven
• ? Javanese: adven

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??nt/

Noun

advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

• adventskalender

References

• “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Noun

advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

• adventskalender

References

• “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Noun

advent m

1. advent

Inflection

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àdvenat

Etymology

From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb adven?re (“come to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?ent/
• Hyphenation: ad?vent

Noun

àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)

Declension

Related terms

• Àdvent

References

• “advent” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish advent, from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad?v?nt/

Noun

advent n

1. Advent

Declension

Related terms

• adventskalender
• adventsljusstake
• adventsrätt
• adventsstjärna
• adventssöndag
• adventstid
• adventsäpple

Descendants

• ? Finnish: adventti