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chance - noun

  1. The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events: fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, luck. See certain.
  2. The likeliness of a given event occurring: likelihood, odds, possibility, probability, prospect(used in plural). See likely.
  3. An unexpected random event: accident, fluke, fortuity, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard. See certain. surprise.
  4. A favorable or advantageous combination of circumstances: break, occasion, opening, opportunity. Informal shot. See luck.
  5. A possibility of danger or harm: gamble, hazard, risk. See safety.

chance - verb

  1. To take place by chance: befall, hap, happen. See happen.
  2. To run the risk of: adventure, hazard, risk, venture. See safety.

chance on - phrasal verb

  1. To find or meet by chance: bump into, come across, come on or upon, find, happen on or upon, light on or upon, run across, run into, stumble on or upon, tumble on. Archaic alight on or upon. See meet.

chance - adjective

  1. Occurring unexpectedly: accidental, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, odd. See surprise.
  2. Having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure: desultory, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, random, spot, unplanned. See planned.