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Happy Chance

Definition: Happy Chance

Happy Chance

Noun

1. An unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Happy Chance

Synonyms: break (n), good luck (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Happy Chance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Chance 2

Phrase: " grasps the skirts of happy chance "; " the accident of an accident ". "There but for the grace of God go I."

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Happy Chance

English words defined with "happy chance": fortuitous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "happy chance": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Happy Chance

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Just happy chance. And surely, the people in Group number two are looking at those fourteen lights in very suspicious way. For them, the situation is fifty-fifty. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Movie/TV Titles

The Princess of Happy Chance (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Happy Chance

Language Translations for "happy chance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

szerencsés véletlen folytán (by a happy chance, by a lucky chance). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

不思議な縁 (by happy chance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふしぎなえ" (by happy chance). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

appyhay ancechay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Happy Chance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-h-h-n-p-p-y"

-4 letters: panache.

-5 letters: apache, canape, cancha, chance, chancy, happen, hyaena, hyphae, hyphen, papacy, peachy, pechan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Happy Chance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 70 70 79      43 68 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#121 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0070 0070 0079      0043 0068 0061 006E 0063 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42678282912377467806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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