perhaps

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/pəˈhæps/

adverb

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01
adverb
Possibly, but not certainly or definitely.
02
adverb
Extra detail
An uncertainty.

Examples

It will be fine weather tomorrow, perhaps.
Perhaps you are right, I have been selfish.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/pəˈɹæps/

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adverb

Extra meaning

By chance.

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We should perhaps try a different approach tomorrow.
Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.

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The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses.
1870, The Missionary Herald, volumes 66-67, page 167
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.
2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian

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Origin

adverb

From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).

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adverb

We are not sure if it will rain today, so we blank just in case bring an umbrella.