Chance

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English

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Chance (countable and uncountable, plural Chances)

  1. An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
  2. A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
  6. A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
  7. A surname.

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French chance.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃãːs(ə)/, /ˈʃɔ̃ːs(ə)/, /ˈʃaŋs(ə)/, /ˈʃɔŋs(ə)/, /ˈʃaŋzə/, /ˈʃɔŋzə/ (roughly ordered from standard to substandard, though all are common)
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  • Hyphenation: Chan‧ce

Noun

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Chance f (genitive Chance, plural Chancen)

  1. chance
    • 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 43/2010, page 170:
      Frauen haben bessere Chancen, schwerste Unfälle zu überleben, als Männer.
      Women have better chances to survive the most serious accidents than men.

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Further reading

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  • Chance” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Chance” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Chance” in Duden online
  • Chance on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de