noun

• (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
  "We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit."
• (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
  "Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?"
• (countable) The probability of something happening.
  "There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow."
• (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
  "Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky. If "Chua" is ill, the chances are that there are certain spirits who do not like his name, so the parents alter his name to "Mee," or something else, and then he gets well again."

adv

• (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.

verb

• (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
  "It chanced that I found a solution the very next day."
• (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
  "[…] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]"
• (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
  "The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman."
• (Nigeria) To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.