Perchance \Per*chance"\ (p[~e]r*ch[.a]ns"), adv. [F. par by (L.
per) + chance. See Par, and Chance.]
By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
perchance
adv 1: through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." [syn: by
chance]
2: by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may
possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may
peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
[syn: possibly, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure]
WordNet (r) 2.0
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "perchance":
accidentally, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance,
by good fortune, by hazard, casually, conceivably, feasibly,
for some reason, fortuitously, haply, imaginably, in some way,
incidentally, it may be, maybe, perhaps, possibly, somehow,
somehow or other, unpredictably
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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