Meaning of PERCHANCE
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- [adv] by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
- [adv] (archaic) through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.."
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| | Synonyms: | | by chance, maybe, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*chance"\, adv. [F. par by (L. per) + chance. See
{Par}, and {Chance}.]
By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
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| | Related Terms: | | accidentally, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance, by good fortune, by hazard, casually, conceivably, feasibly, for some reason, fortuitously, haply, imaginably, in some way, incidentally, it may be, maybe, perhaps, possibly, somehow, somehow or other, unpredictably |
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