chance – English noun declension

English noun forms of chance

Noun: chance
Singularchance
Pluralchances

Sample Sentences

  • We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.
  • There was a fat/slim chance that my letter would arrive in time.
  • If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet."
  • Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country.
  • But now I do have that chance, and I'll let you in on a secret: I mean to use it. [1965 March 15, Lyndon B. Johnson, 42:30 from the start, in Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506., Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum:]
  • Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
  • My whole life seems to be ruled by blind chance.
  • There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
  • There is little chance of having the chance to approach such a big celeb.
  • Though we carried a radio, the chance of rescue in many areas was slim, and one man could never haul the boat with the other one on board. [1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 591:]
  • Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky. If "Chua" is ill, the chances are that there are certain spirits who do not like his name, so the parents alter his name to "Mee," or something else, and then he gets well again. [1908, Ernest Young, “Chapter 4 The children”, in Peeps at Many Lands: Siam, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 16:]
  • But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
  • Wild-visag'd Wanderer! ah for thy heavy chance! [1795, Robert Southey, The Soldier's Wife:]

Etymology

From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza. See: Middle English Nouns 'chance', Latin Nouns 'cadere'.

Verbs referencing "chance"

Spanish Nouns chance, Dutch Nouns kans, Icelandic Nouns séns, Finnish Nouns senssit, Finnish Nouns tsäänssi, Faroese Nouns kjansur.