chance

CEFRA2

/ˈt͡ʃɑːns/

noun

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01
noun
The possibility that something will happen.
02
noun
An opportunity to do something.

Examples

Any chance you know where I put my keys?
She only has a slim chance of passing the exam.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈt͡ʃans/
/ˈt͡ʃeə̯ns/

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noun

Extra meanings

Random occurrence; luck.
The probability of something happening.
An opportunity or possibility.

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Everyone deserves a second chance.
There was a fat/slim chance that my letter would arrive in time.
We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.

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Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
He does chance it in stocks, but he's always played on the square, if you call stocks gambling.
1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
I chanced on this letter.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]
It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country. But now I do have that chance, and I'll let you in on a secret: I mean to use it.
1965 March 15, Lyndon B. Johnson, 42:30 from the start, in Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506., Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
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, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

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Origin

noun

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

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