chance event

1. 1.

   anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

   “winning the lottery was a happy accident”

   “the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck”

   “it was due to an accident or fortuity”

   Synonymsaccidentstrokefortuity

   Broaderhappening

   Narrowerhapbreakcoincidencelottery

Questions about chance event

What does chance event mean?

chance event means "anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause".

What is another word for chance event?

Close synonyms include accident, stroke, fortuity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chance event a common word?

chance event is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.