"быть может" meaning in Russian

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "быть мо́жет",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bytʹ móžet",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "быть мо́жет"
      },
      "expansion": "быть мо́жет • (bytʹ móžet)",
      "name": "ru-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "móžet bytʹ",
          "word": "мо́жет быть"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian hedges",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He lies there dead, blood-stained. Why did Fate bring him here? Who was he? Perhaps he, like myself, had an aged mother.",
          "ref": "1877, Всеволод Гаршин [Vsevolod Garshin], Четыре дня; English translation from Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., Four Days, 1891:",
          "roman": "On ležít zdesʹ mjórtvyj, okrovávlennyj. Začém sudʹbá prignalá jevó sjudá? Kto on? Bytʹ móžet, i u nevó, kak u menjá, jestʹ stáraja matʹ.",
          "text": "Он лежи́т здесь мёртвый, окрова́вленный. Заче́м судьба́ пригнала́ его́ сюда́? Кто он? Быть мо́жет, и у него́, как у меня́, есть ста́рая мать.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of мо́жет быть (móžet bytʹ)"
      ],
      "id": "en-быть_может-ru-adv-RBKUG~Ju",
      "links": [
        [
          "мо́жет быть",
          "может быть#Russian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "hedge",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hedge, literary) Alternative form of мо́жет быть (móžet bytʹ)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[bɨtʲ ˈmoʐɨt]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "быть может"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "быть мо́жет",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bytʹ móžet",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "быть мо́жет"
      },
      "expansion": "быть мо́жет • (bytʹ móžet)",
      "name": "ru-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "móžet bytʹ",
          "word": "мо́жет быть"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Russian adverbs",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian hedges",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian literary terms",
        "Russian multiword terms",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He lies there dead, blood-stained. Why did Fate bring him here? Who was he? Perhaps he, like myself, had an aged mother.",
          "ref": "1877, Всеволод Гаршин [Vsevolod Garshin], Четыре дня; English translation from Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., Four Days, 1891:",
          "roman": "On ležít zdesʹ mjórtvyj, okrovávlennyj. Začém sudʹbá prignalá jevó sjudá? Kto on? Bytʹ móžet, i u nevó, kak u menjá, jestʹ stáraja matʹ.",
          "text": "Он лежи́т здесь мёртвый, окрова́вленный. Заче́м судьба́ пригнала́ его́ сюда́? Кто он? Быть мо́жет, и у него́, как у меня́, есть ста́рая мать.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of мо́жет быть (móžet bytʹ)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "мо́жет быть",
          "может быть#Russian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "hedge",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hedge, literary) Alternative form of мо́жет быть (móžet bytʹ)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[bɨtʲ ˈmoʐɨt]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "быть может"
}