chance on

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1.chance on - find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, attain, discover, strikeregain, find - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"

chance

noun1. The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events:fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, luck.2. The likeliness of a given event occurring:likelihood, odds, possibility, probability, prospect (used in plural).3. An unexpected random event:accident, fluke, fortuity, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard.4. A favorable or advantageous combination of circumstances:break, occasion, opening, opportunity.Informal: shot.5. A possibility of danger or harm:gamble, hazard, risk.verb1. To take place by chance:befall, hap, happen.2. To run the risk of:adventure, hazard, risk, venture.phrasal verb
chance on or upon
To find or meet by chance:bump into, come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.Archaic: alight on (or upon).Idiom: meet up with.adjective1. Occurring unexpectedly:accidental, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, odd.2. Having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure:desultory, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, random, spot, unplanned.

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