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chance
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)
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (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)
- 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.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. VI, The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centennial Edition)
Translations
Adverb
chance (not comparable)
- (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)
- (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."
- (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
- 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.
- To discover something by chance.
- (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)
- 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)
- chance
- 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)
- 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)
- chance; fate
- (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 IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cheance, supplement)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe 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)
- probability
- 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)
- chance
Conjunction
chance
- (Mexico) maybe, perchance, perhaps or possibly
- Synonyms: a lo mejor, quizá, quizás, tal vez
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adventure
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?d?v?nt???/, /æd?v?nt???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?v?nt???/
- Hyphenation: ad?ven?ture
Etymology 1
From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).
Noun
adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)
- The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
- (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
- (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
- 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart
- He was in great adventure of his life.
- 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart
Synonyms
- (that which happens by chance): fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (chance of danger or loss): hazard
- (risk): jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger
Antonyms
- abstention, peradventure, unadventurous
Derived terms
- at all adventures
Related terms
- advent
- advene
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
Verb
adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)
- (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:
- Discriminations might be adventured.
- c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:
- (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- aventured, unaverted
Latin
Participle
advent?re
- vocative masculine singular of advent?rus
Middle French
Alternative forms
- aventure
Etymology
From Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin advent?rum.
Noun
adventure f (plural adventures)
- adventure
- fortune
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