• a risk involving danger; "you take a Chance when you let her drive"
• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good Chance of winning"
• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure Chance"
• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your Chance"
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She Chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
• be the case by Chance; "I Chanced to meet my old friend in the street"

'Chance' in other languages