happy chance

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   an unexpected piece of good luck

   “he finally got his big break”

   Synonymsbreakgood luck

   Broaderaccident

Questions about happy chance

What does happy chance mean?

happy chance means "an unexpected piece of good luck".

What is another word for happy chance?

Close synonyms include break, good luck. 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 happy chance a common word?

happy chance 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.