Perchance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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