## Meanings
1. An opportunity to do something.
2. How likely it is that something will happen.
3. The way things happen without being planned; luck.
4. To find or meet something unexpectedly.

## Examples
- We had the chance to meet the president last week.
- There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
- We met by chance at the airport.
- I chanced upon an old friend in the street.

## Synonyms
- encounter
- fool
- occur
- transpire
- trick

## Derived Forms
- bechance
- chance-medley
- chanceable
- chanceful
- chanceless
- chancely
- chancer
- chancewise
- chancy
- half-chance
- happenchance
- off-chance

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *ḱh₂d-
- Root: chance
- Root: cheance
- Root: *cadentia
- Root: cadere

## Etymology
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.

## AI Etymology
chance is a noun and verb. It is from Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza. Historical forms in the chain include *ḱh₂d- (Proto-Indo-European), chance (Middle English), cheance (Old French), *cadentia (la-vul), and cadere (Latin). Current senses include an opportunity to do something, how likely it is that something will happen, and the way things happen without being planned; luck. Derived forms include bechance, chance-medley, chanceable, chanceful, and chanceless.

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