chance event

Thesaurus

Noun

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chance event - anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"fortuity, accident, strokehappening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happenshap - an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"happy chance, break, good luck - an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break"coincidence, happenstance - an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidentallottery - something that is regarded as a chance event; "the election was just a lottery to them"