"by chance" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase}} by chance
  1. Unexpectedly, accidentally; without foreplanning. Translations (unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)): صُدْفَةً (ṣudfatan) (Arabic), بِصُدْفَة (biṣudfa) (Arabic), بالصدفة [South-Levantine-Arabic] (Arabic), выпадко́ва (vypadkóva) (Belarusian), случа́йно (slučájno) (Bulgarian), per atzar (Catalan), per casualitat (Catalan), salagma (Cebuano), 碰巧 (pèngqiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 湊巧 (Chinese Mandarin), 凑巧 (còuqiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 恰巧 (qiàqiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 剛好 (Chinese Mandarin), 刚好 (gānghǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 偶然 (ǒurán) (Chinese Mandarin), náhodou (Czech), tilfældigt (Danish), toevallig (Dutch), okaze (Esperanto), hazarde (Esperanto), sattumalta (Finnish), sattumoisin (Finnish), d’aventure (French), par hasard (French), par rencontre (French), zufällig (German), von ungefähr (German), τυχαία (tychaía) (Greek), véletlenül (Hungarian), hazarde (Ido), per caso (Italian), casualmente (Italian), 偶然 (gūzen) (alt: ぐうぜん) (Japanese), 우연히 (uyeonhi) (Korean), fortuītō (Latin), temere (Latin), случајно (slučajno) (Macedonian), tilfeldigvis (Norwegian Bokmål), tilfeldigvis (Norwegian Nynorsk), اتفاقاً (ettefâqan) (Persian), przypadkowo (Polish), przypadkiem (Polish), por acaso (Portuguese), casualmente (Portuguese), din întâmplare (Romanian), din noroc (Romanian), случа́йно (slučájno) (Russian), le tuiteamas (Scottish Gaelic), слу̏ча̄јно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), slȕčājno [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), náhodou (Slovak), slučajno (Slovene), por casualidad (Spanish), kwa nasibu (Swahili), av en slump (Swedish), şans eseri (Turkish), випадко́во (vypadkóvo) (Ukrainian), اچانک (aćānak) (Urdu), اچانک سے (aćānak sē) (Urdu), tình cờ (Vietnamese), d' astcheyance (Walloon)
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  2. Possibly; perhaps. Synonyms: by any chance
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Derived forms: Come By Chance
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          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "le tuiteamas"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
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            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "слу̏ча̄јно"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "slȕčājno"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "náhodou"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "slučajno"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "por casualidad"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "kwa nasibu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "av en slump"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "şans eseri"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "vypadkóvo",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "випадко́во"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "aćānak",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "اچانک"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "aćānak sē",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "اچانک سے"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "tình cờ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
          "word": "d' astcheyance"
        }
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        {
          "text": "Are you by chance looking for the exit?",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "Possibly; perhaps."
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          "possibly"
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          "word": "by any chance"
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}
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    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Cebuano translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
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    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
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    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
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      "word": "Come By Chance"
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          "text": "I stumbled across the exit by chance.",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṣudfatan",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "صُدْفَةً"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "biṣudfa",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "بِصُدْفَة"
    },
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      "code": "ajp",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
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      "word": "بالصدفة"
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "vypadkóva",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "выпадко́ва"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "slučájno",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "случа́йно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "per atzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "per casualitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "salagma"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pèngqiǎo",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "碰巧"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "湊巧"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "còuqiǎo",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "凑巧"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiàqiǎo",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "恰巧"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "剛好"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gānghǎo",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "刚好"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ǒurán",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "偶然"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "náhodou"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "tilfældigt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "toevallig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "okaze"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "hazarde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "sattumalta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "sattumoisin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "d’aventure"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "par hasard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "par rencontre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "zufällig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "von ungefähr"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tychaía",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "τυχαία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "véletlenül"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "hazarde"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "per caso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "casualmente"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぐうぜん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gūzen",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "偶然"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "uyeonhi",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "우연히"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "fortuītō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "temere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "slučajno",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "случајно"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "tilfeldigvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "tilfeldigvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ettefâqan",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "اتفاقاً"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "przypadkowo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "przypadkiem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "por acaso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "casualmente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "din întâmplare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "din noroc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slučájno",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "случа́йно"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "le tuiteamas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "слу̏ча̄јно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "slȕčājno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "náhodou"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "slučajno"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "por casualidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "kwa nasibu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "av en slump"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "şans eseri"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vypadkóvo",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "випадко́во"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "aćānak",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "اچانک"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "aćānak sē",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "اچانک سے"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "tình cờ"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
      "word": "d' astcheyance"
    }
  ],
  "word": "by chance"
}

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