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Definition: Happy Chance |
Happy ChanceNoun1. 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 ChanceSynonyms: break (n), good luck (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Happy Chance |
| English words defined with "happy chance": fortuitous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "happy chance": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 70 70 79      43 68 61 6E 63 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a p p y   C h a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0070 0070 0079      0043 0068 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42678282912377467806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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