To happen; fall out; come or arrive without design or expectation.
To befall or happen to.
To risk; hazard; take the chances of: as, the thing may be dangerous, but I will chance it.
By chance; perchance.
noun.
Fall; falling.
noun.
A throw of dice; the number turned up by a die.
noun.
Hence Risk; hazard; a balanced possibility of gain or loss, particularly in gaming; uncertainty.
noun.
A contingent or unexpected event; an event which might or might not befall.
noun.
Vicissitude; contingent or unexpected events in a series or collectively.
noun.
Luck; fortune; that which happens to or befalls one.
noun.
Opportunity; a favorable contingency: as, now is your chance.
noun.
Probability; the proportion of events favorable to a hypothesis out of all those which may occur: as, the chances are against your succeeding.
noun.
Fortuity; especially, the absence of a cause necessitating an event, or the absence of any known reason why an event should turn out one way rather than another, spoken of as if it were a real agency; the variability of an event under given general conditions, viewed as a real agency.
Resulting from or due to chance; casual; unexpected: as, a chance remark; a chance customer.
Synonyms Casual, Fortuitous, etc. See accidental.