Usually means: Probability of an event occurring.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. chance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chance, chance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chance, Chance, chance: Wordnik
  7. chance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Chance, chance: Wiktionary
  9. chance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chance, chance: Dictionary.com
  13. chance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chance (Act song), Chance (Ancient Greek concept), Chance (Big Country song), Chance (Conrad novel), Chance (Manfred Mann's Earth Band album), Chance (Parker novel), Chance (TV series), Chance (band), Chance (comics), Chance (movie), Chance (name), Chance (philosophy), Chance, The Chance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chance: Rhymezone
  19. chance, chance, chance (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Chance: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. chance: Free Dictionary
  23. chance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. chance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. chance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. chance: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chance: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Chance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. chance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Chance: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. chance: Idioms
  5. CHANCE: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chance: Easton Bible
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chance: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chance: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chanced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
noun:  (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
noun:  (countable) The probability of something happening.
noun:  (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
noun:  (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
adjective:  Happening by chance, casual.
adverb:  (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
verb:  To try or risk.
verb:  To discover something by chance.
verb:  (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
verb:  (Nigeria) To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
noun:  A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
noun:  A surname.

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