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say it: chans
chance is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
“the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington”
“now is your chance”
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
“the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5”
“if that phone call is for me, chances are it's my wife”
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
“When you buy these stocks you are gambling”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.