n. Fall; falling.n. A throw of dice; the number turned up by a die.n. Hence Risk; hazard; a balanced possibility of gain or loss, particularly in gaming; uncertainty.n. A contingent or unexpected event; an event which might or might not befall.n. Vicissitude; contingent or unexpected events in a series or collectively.n. Luck; fortune; that which happens to or befalls one.n. Opportunity; a favorable contingency: as, now is your chance.n. Probability; the proportion of events favorable to a hypothesis out of all those which may occur: as, the chances are against your succeeding.n. Fortuity; especially, the absence of a cause necessitating an event, or the absence of any known reason why an event should turn out one way rather than another, spoken of as if it were a real agency; the variability of an event under given general conditions, viewed as a real agency.Resulting from or due to chance; casual; unexpected: as, a chance remark; a chance customer.Synonyms Casual, Fortuitous, etc. See accidental.To happen; fall out; come or arrive without design or expectation.To befall or happen to.To risk; hazard; take the chances of: as, the thing may be dangerous, but I will chance it.By chance; perchance.