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Definitions for Chances

[1] the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
[2] luck or fortune: a game of chance.
[3] a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty-percent chance of success.
[4] an opportune or favorable time; opportunity: Now is your chance.
[5] Baseball . an opportunity to field the ball and make a put-out or assist.
[6] a risk or hazard: Take a chance.
[7] a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing: The charity is selling chances for a dollar each.
[8] chances, probability: The chances are that the train hasn't left yet.
[9] Midland and Southern U.S. a quantity or number (usually followed by of ).
[10] Archaic . an unfortunate event; mishap.
[11] to happen or occur by chance: It chanced that our arrivals coincided.
[12] to take the chances or risks of; risk (often followed by impersonal it ): I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome.
[13] not planned or expected; accidental: a chance occurrence.
[14] chance on /upon , to come upon by chance; meet unexpectedly: She chanced on a rare kind of mushroom during her walk through the woods.
[15] by chance , without plan or intent; accidentally: I met her again by chance in a department store in Paris.
[16] on the chance , in the mild hope or against the possibility: I'll wait on the chance that she'll come.
[17] on the off chance , in the very slight hope or against the very slight possibility.
[18] the unknown and unpredictable element that causes an event to result in a certain way rather than another, spoken of as a real force (as modifier ) a chance meeting Related adjective: fortuitous
[19] fortune; luck; fate
[20] an opportunity or occasion
[21] a risk; gamble you take a chance with his driving
[22] the extent to which an event is likely to occur; probability
[23] an unpredicted event, esp a fortunate one that was quite a chance, finding him here
[24] archaic an unlucky event; mishap
[25] by chance accidentally he slipped by chance perhaps do you by chance have a room?
[26] chances are… or the chances are… it is likely (that) …
[27] on the chance acting on the possibility; in case
[28] the main chance the opportunity for personal gain (esp in the phrase an eye to the main chance )
[29] (tr) to risk; hazard I'll chance the worst happening
[30] to happen by chance; be the case by chance I chanced to catch sight of her as she passed
[31] chance on or chance upon to come upon by accident he chanced on the solution to his problem
[32] chance one's arm to attempt to do something although the chance of success may be slight

Words nearby Chances

chancechamps-elysées, chan chan, chan., chanaan, chanc., chance, chance it, chance music, chance on, chance-medley, chanceful

Origin of Chances

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French chance, cheance < Vulgar Latin *cadentia a befalling, happening; see cadenza

Other words from Chances

chance·less , adjective
un·chanced , adjective

Word origin for Chances

C13: from Old French cheance, from cheoir to fall, occur, from Latin cadere

Synonyms for Chances

break, likelihood, odds, opportunity, outlook, prospect, shot, time, contingency, indications, liability, occasion, opening, scope, show, squeak, wager, fair shake, fighting chance, long shot, look-in