chance+upon
41chance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fortuity Nouns 1. chance, accident, lot; fate, kismet, karma (See destiny); Lady Luck, [Dame] Fortune; luck, fortune, hap, hazard; contingency, adventure, fortuity; randomness, indetermination,… …
42Chance (novel) — 1st edition dustwrapper Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913 following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad s later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest… …
43chance on — (Roget s Thesaurus II) (or upon) verb To find or meet by chance: bump into, come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on. Archaic: alight on (or upon). Idiom …
44chance — n., adj., & v. n. 1 a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in pl.) probability (the chances are against it). 2 a risk (have to take a chance). 3 a an undesigned occurrence (just a chance that they met). b the absence of …
45chance — Synonyms and related words: a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, arise, assay, attempt, bare possibility, bechance, befall, bet, betide, blind …
46chance on/upon — COME ACROSS/UPON, run across/into, happen on, light on, stumble on, find by chance, meet (by chance); informal bump into; archaic run against. → chance …
47chance — [[t]tʃæns, tʃɑns[/t]] n. v. chanced, chanc•ing, adj. 1) the unpredictable and uncontrollable element of an occurrence 2) luck or fortune: a game of chance[/ex] 3) a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty percent chance of… …
48chance — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia fall, from Latin cadent , cadens, present participle of cadere to fall; perhaps akin to Sanskrit śad to fall off Date: 14th century 1. a. something that happens… …
49Chance of survivorship — Survivorship Sur*viv or*ship, n. 1. The state of being a survivor. [1913 Webster] 1. (Law) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other. Blackstone. [1913… …
50chance-medley — A casual affray; such killing as happens in self defense upon a sudden encounter. See 4 Bl Comm 184 …
