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General dictionaries General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. chance: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. chance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. chance: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. chance: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. CHANCE, Chance, chance: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. chance: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Chance: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. chance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. chance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. chance: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Chance, chance: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. chance: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. chance: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. chance: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. chance, chance: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. CHANCE, Chance (Ancient Greek concept), Chance (album), Chance (artist), Chance (comics), Chance (film), Chance (movie), Chance (music), Chance (novel), Chance (porn star), Chance, The Chance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. chance: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Chance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. chance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. chance: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. chance, chance, chance (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. chance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. chance: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  24. Chance: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  25. Chance: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  26. chance: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  27. chance: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  28. chance: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  29. Chance, chance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  30. chance: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  31. chance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHANCE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  2. chance: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  3. chance: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chance: Cybernetics and Systems [home, info]
  2. Chance: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chance: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Chance: Hepatitis C Information Central [home, info]
  3. chance: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chance, Chance: baby names list [home, info]
  2. CHANCE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. Chance: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology [home, info]
  4. CHANCE: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  5. chance: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chance: Easton Bible [home, info]
  2. CHANCE: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chance: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chance: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions (chance)

noun:  a risk involving danger ("You take a chance when you let her drive")
noun:  a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur ("We have a good chance of winning")
noun:  a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances ("Now is your chance")
noun:  an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another ("We ran into each other by pure chance")
verb:  be the case by chance ("I chanced to meet my old friend in the street")
verb:  take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
verb:  come upon, as if by accident; meet with ("She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day")
name:  A male given name (rare: 1 in 14285 males; popularity rank in the U.S.: #842)
name:  A surname (common: 1 in 20000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #2290)

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Phrases that include chance:   sporting chance, chance on, chance upon, off chance, chance variable, more...

Words similar to chance:   accidental, adventure, bump, casual, chanced, chancing, encounter, find, fortune, gamble, happen, hazard, hit, luck, opportunity, probability, risk, beton, hap, run a risk, more...


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