Perhaps

Definition: Perhaps

Perhaps

Adverb

1. 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".

Date "perhaps" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Note: Perhaps \Per*haps"\, adverb. [Per hap chance.]. (references)

Synonyms: Perhaps

Synonyms: maybe (adv), peradventure (adv), perchance (adv), possibly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Possibility	Adverb: possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply, mayhap.
Supposition	Adverb: if, if so be; an; on the supposition; Noun:ex hypothesi; in the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps; (by possibility); for aught one knows.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Perhaps the idea of becoming someone else for a little while (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die. (The Fly; writing credit: David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue.) It was parked in a handicapped zone, perhaps they towed it. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) But the thing is, um, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)
Lyrics	Perhaps its just my imagination (Overkill; performing artist: Men At Work) Some of you who have small children may have perhaps been put in the (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Tongue Twisters	Pick a partner and practice passing, for if you pass proficiently, perhaps you'll play professionally. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Elsewhere, Perhaps (reference) Like a perhaps hand (reference) Perhaps (reference) Perhaps She'll Die (reference) Perhaps She'll Die: A Chantalene Mystery (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Perhaps Today (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Perhaps I Suppose... (reference) Perhaps Love (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pictured here is an experimental guinea pig lying on a lab table. Also seen are the hands of a female technician injecting a substance into the animal. The fur around the area being injected has been shaved away, exposing the area to be injected. Perhaps a chemical is being tested for its carcinogenic effect. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		Shown are electron micrographs of the family of retroviruses that reproduce in t-lymphocytes. Retroviruses, which cause a variety of naturally occurring cancers in many animal species, also cause cancers in human beings. The first two human retroviruses to be discovered and characterized, human t-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) and type II (HTLV-II), have been associated with the human cancers known, respectively, as adult t-cell leukemia and hairy cell leukemia. HTLV-III is the AIDS virus, now called HIV-I. Epidemiologic studies have shown that HTLV-I infection and t-cell malignancy both cluster in certain geographic areas and in certain populations, and suggest that transmission occurs in the household, through sexual contacts, and perhaps at birth. See artwork: GR-30. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Beginning the measurement of the Salt Lake City Base Perhaps last use of Eimbeck base bar apparatus Figure No. 7, Appendix No. 12 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 774. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Camp at Goodland Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter Perhaps a reconnaissance group - Porter didn't work in Kansas in 1934. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Perhaps the remains of a once noble ship or maybe only an old pier. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Perhaps a bilingual Texan who fishes or a Rocky type greeting for the fish. Credit: Fisheries.
	A decoration? A memorial? Perhaps a celebration? Flowers grace a shrimp boat in Conn Brown Harbor. Credit: Fisheries.		A giant squid observed off Teneriffe in November 1861. Perhaps the inspiration for Jules Vernes' "20,000 Leagues under the Sea." In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 108. P. 115. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Diffuse knapweed just about go under and perhaps attached to the vehicle in the Lower John Day River area. Credit: Jerry Asher.		"I think I'll cook...or maybe...or what about...or perhaps...". Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Francois Rabelais	The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
	I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Honore de Balzac	Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Iris Murdoch	Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Robert Bresson	Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Samuel Johnson	Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Virgil	Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
	Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.
William L. Shirer	Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	It will perhaps be objected to this, that if gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, &c. (Second Treatise of Government)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	This would perhaps double the mobility of the American Navy and Air Force. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. (reference)
John F. Kennedy	1961	Nor will it finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Perhaps it is paid already
Alice in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis	Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Left it to his company, perhaps.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	In some other form, perhaps, I may hereafter develop these effects
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Of all the writers, he perhaps who dug the most unwholesome gallery through the masses was Restif de La Bretonne
Trainspotting	Irvine Welsh	He wonders if perhaps Sick Boy's success with women is based on his ability to raise one eyebrow
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Perhaps Leicester Abbey was like that
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And when the sun went down, perhaps twenty families and twenty cars were there
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Perhaps you need a hallway light. (references)
		They include codeine and perhaps the most well-known narcotic of all, morphine. (references)
		Such assaults may be linked to an unknown environmental trigger, perhaps a virus. (references)
Business		The GSM service, or perhaps a private GSM license, could be granted to a private operator. (references)
		The rise of Chinese firms is perhaps the most stunning development in the area of application software. (references)
		In subsequent protests of this action, police killed at least 10, and perhaps as many as 70, Uyghur demonstrators. (references)
Civil Liberties	Uzbekistan	Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of citizens have been imprisoned for possessing or distributing Hizb ut-Tahrir leaflets, which are both political and religious in content. (references)
	Korea	The Chinese Government states that there are only a few hundred North Koreans in China, others estimate that there are at least tens of thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands. (references)
	Colombia	CODHES estimated that perhaps 65 percent of displacements became permanent, while the ICRC estimates that 50 percent of the displaced return home, although they may be displaced again. (references)
Economic History	Georgia	Agriculture was perhaps the most responsive to the change from a command to market economic system. (references)
	Italy	In all cases, the American exporter will have to decide how to strike a balance between making the sale perhaps more easily with liberal financing terms versus striking a sale by seeking more secure payment terms. (references)
	Hungary	Therefore, perhaps the best franchising models for the Hungarian market are home-based, lower capital franchises that focus on the well-educated, highly motivated Hungarians who already possess a natural inclination toward small-scale entrepreneurship but lack financing. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	In July a Bogota judge, citing lack of evidence, acquitted five suspects in the 1998 killing of Eduardo Umana Mendoza, perhaps the country's best-known and most controversial human rights lawyer. (references)
	Bhutan	There were no peaceful protest marches from India to Bhutan during the year, perhaps due to fear of arrests and deportation, as occurred in previous years after such marches. (references)
	Solomon Islands	In June 2000, Malaitan militants in a police patrol boat used a heavy machine gun to support an attack on Guadalcanalese positions, killing perhaps six Guadalcanalese militants. (references)
Indigenous People	Cameroon	A population of perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 Baka (Pygmies), a term that encompasses several different ethnic groups, primarily reside in the forested areas of the South and East provinces, of which Pygmies were the earliest known inhabitants. (references)
Minorities	Dominican Republic	Perhaps 500,000 Haitian immigrants--or 7 percent of the country's population--live in shantytowns or sugar cane work camps, in harsh conditions with limited or no electricity, running water, or schooling. (references)
Political Economy	Kenya	Smaller ethnic groups, perhaps fearing domination by larger groups, have for the most part sided with President Moi and the ruling KANU party. (references)
Trade	Norway	If the trademark application process should need comprehensive research and examination, or extensive contact/correspondence between the consultant, the agency, and the client, total expenses could perhaps run as high as NOK 10,000 ($1,111). (references)
	Guatemala	The approval process can take six months or perhaps longer. (references)
Travel	Sweden	Perhaps due to the Swedish tradition of social democracy or the great egalitarian concerns, Swedish managers are more consensus builders than decision-makers. (references)
Worker Rights	Armenia	A significant amount of economic activity, perhaps as much as 40 percent, takes place without being recorded or taxed by the local authorities. (references)
	Japan	Most Thai women trafficked into the sex trade have their movements strictly controlled by their employers while working off their debt, and were threatened with reprisals, perhaps through members of organized crime groups, to themselves, or their families if they try to escape. (references)
	Ukraine	In theory workers have a legal right to remove themselves from dangerous work situations without jeopardizing continued employment; however, in reality, independent trade unionists reported that asserting this right would result in retaliation or perhaps dismissal by management. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread -- a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ellen Levin	Not really. There were several jurors that were very adamant that he should have been found guilty of murder, and there was one juror who, I believe, and I was told that seemed to have a secret crush on him, and that she was perhaps the one holdout.
James Lipton	There are things I could do, perhaps. I would like to do. Harvey Weinstein recently grabbed me by the shoulders and said, you got to do a show that you talk to everybody. I don't think I would be able to do it. I can't do what you do.
John McCain	Well, you've got a situation where the terrain is the most unfriendly, perhaps, of any place in the world, though you might argue that triple canopy jungle in Vietnam is just as difficult. But it is one of the most difficult.
Robert Atkins	OK, then which I stop one of our first callers, you should really check your temperature to see if perhaps you don't have a sluggish thyroid because that may be the answer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	But perhaps it will be said, that we are to enjoy the British constitution in our supreme legislature, the parliament, not in our provincial legislatures.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Those which are founded on geographical divisions, adverse interests of soil, climate, and modes of domestic life are more permanent, and therefore, perhaps, more dangerous.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	In addition to the dangers to the Constitution springing from the sources I have stated, there has been one which was perhaps greater than all.
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	My own position upon this subject was clear and unequivocal, upon the record of my words and my acts, and it is only recurred to at this time because silence might perhaps be misconstrued.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Today marks the beginning not only of a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for us and for the world.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Perhaps now, as we step back from danger, we can together make real progress in this vital field.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	That violation threatens the independence of all the small nations in Southeast Asia, and threatens the peace of the entire region and perhaps the world.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Perhaps, but it could save millions of lives, indeed humanity itself.
George Bush	1989-1993	For the first time in this century, for the first time in perhaps all history, man does not have to invent a system by which to live.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Perhaps" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perhaps" is used about 35,003 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	35,002	237
Total	100.00%	35,003	N/A

Expressions using "perhaps": perhaps not ♦ perhaps so. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "perhaps": perhaps-astonished, perhaps-it, perhaps-not-improved.
	Ending with "perhaps": century-perhaps, could-perhaps, features-perhaps, mufti-perhaps, other-perhaps, something-perhaps, them-perhaps.
	Containing "perhaps": What-may-perhaps-be.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "perhaps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		miskien (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Albanian		ndoshta (belike, maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Arabic		‏محتمل (bearable, endurable, likely, perchance, possible, potential, presumably, probable, prospective, sufferable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable), ‏لعل (maybe), ‏قد (already, may, may do), ‏ربما (at times, likely, may, maybe, might, possibly, probably, supposedly), ‏شىء عرضة للتخمين. (various references)

Basque		beharbada (maybe). (various references)

Bulgarian		може би (conceivably, maybe, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Chinese		莫不 (probably, there is no one), 恐怕 (afraid, I think), 或者 (maybe, or, possibly), 或许, 或許 (maybe), 或 (maybe, might, or, possibly), 也許 (maybe). (various references)

Czech		snad (conceivably, daresay, maybe, possibly), možná (conceivably, maybe, possibly). (various references)

Danish		måske (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Dutch		misschien (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Esperanto		eble (maybe, possibly). (various references)

Faeroese		møguliga (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), kanska (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Farsi		ممکن است (May, Perchance), گویا (Communicative), توان بود (Perchance), اتفاقا (Haphazard, Peradventure, Perchance), شاید (Belike, Lest, Like, May, Maybe, Peradventure, Perchance). (various references)

Finnish		kenties (maybe), kai (maybe, probably), ehkä (maybe, possibly). (various references)

French		peut-être (perchance). (various references)

Frisian		mooglik (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possible, possibly), miskien (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), mûlk (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possible, possibly), faaks (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

German		vielleicht (by any chance, fair, happen, maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps so, possibly, really), etwa (about, abroad, approximately, some), wohl (accordingly, arguably, certainly, consequently, indeed, maybe, mayhap, no doubt, perchance, possibly, probably, rather, so, surely, then, therefore, to be sure, weal, welfare, well, well being, well-being), möglicherweise (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly, potentially), eventuell (contingent, contingently, eventual, in certain circumstances, maybe, mayhap, perchance, possible, possibly). (various references)

Greek		μπορεί, πιθανόν (likely, possibly), ίσωσ (may, maybe, peradventure), ίσως (possibly). (various references)

Hawaiian		ndoshta (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Hebrew		אולי (maybe, or). (various references)

Hungarian		talán (belike, haply, maybe, mayhap, mayhaps, perchance, possibly, probably, so so), esetleg (by any chance, haply, incidentally, maybe, mayhap, mayhaps, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Indonesian		mungkin (maybe, might, possibly, probable), mudah-mudahan (hopefully, if possible, may, so be it, who knows), jangan-jangan (let us hope not, maybe, who knows), banyakan. (various references)

Irish		b'fhéidir. (various references)

Italian		forse (about, maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly, probably). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		若しかすると (by some chance, maybe), 若しかしたら　 (by some chance, maybe), 若しかしたら (by some chance, maybe), 若しかして (possibly), 蓋し (probably), 恐らく , ひょう窃 (accidentally, by chance, flutter, frail, hurt, lanky, long and thin, maybe, piracy, plagiarism, possibly, smart, swaying, tall and thin, to feelcool, unexpectedly, unsteady steps), 多分 (probably), 大方 (almost all, majority), かも知れない (at all, banter, because, completely, dried-up, from, may, may be, might, out of, parched, persiflage, possibly, quite, since, through, utterly), こそ泥 (because of this, besides, by doing, by means of, can, clicking, compact, drumming, dry, due to this, frightened, happens on occasions, hard, has occurred, hitch, in addition, it has been arrangedthat, it has been decidedthat, it is I who should say so, laboriously, lately, maybe, misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", moreover, possibly, prejudice, puritanical, recently, regularToukai-line shinkansen, secretly, sneak-thief, sound of rapping, steadily, stealthily, such a thing happened, thanks to this, the other day, there are times when, through, to be able to, to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over, to have done, to this extent, trouble, unflaggingly, untiringly, using, via). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たぶん (informing, probably), おおかた (almost all, majority), おそらく, ひょっとすると (maybe, possibly), かもしれない (may, may be, might, possibly), ことにすると (maybe, possibly), もしかすると (by some chance, maybe), もしかしたら (by some chance, maybe), もしかして (possibly), けだし (probably). (various references)

Lombard		poeu vess (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Malay		mungkin (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), boleh jadi (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Manx		hoiggal (peradventure), foddee (can, may, maybe, peradventure, perchance, possibly, probably). (various references)

Norwegian		kanskje (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Occitan		benlèu (maybe). (various references)

Papiamen		podisé (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), talbes (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), kisas (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Pig Latin		erhapspay.(various references)

Polish		może (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Portuguese		talvez (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly, probably), acaso (accidence, accident, case, chance, fortuity, hap, haphazard, hazard, lottery, luck, maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly, random, venture), possivelmente (belike, likely, maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), porventura (mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian		talvez. (various references)

Romanian		poate (maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Russian		возможно (ablins, it is possible, peradventure, perchance, possibly, presumably), может быть (maybe). (various references)

Scottish		theagamh (may be, mayhap), eagan. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		možda (maybe, perchance, possible). (various references)

Spanish		quizás (maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly), tal vez (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Sranan		sonten (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), sonte (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), kande (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Swahili		labda (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Swedish		kanske (haply, maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Tagalog		sigúro (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), maráhil (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Tahitian		paha. (various references)

Turkish		muhtemelen (easily, likely, presumably, presumedly, probably), bir ihtimal (by any chance, contingently, off chance, perchance), belki (contingently, maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly), belkí (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Ukrainian		говорити неупевненно, може бути (belike, might), можливо (conceivably, maybe, peradventure, perchance, possibly, presumably, probably), піддавати сумніву (query), припущення (admission, assumption, calculation, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, inference, presumption, presupposition, subaudition, suppose, supposition, surmise, theory). (various references)

Vietnamese		có thể (ablings, ablins, aiblins, likely, maybe, possible, possibly, praps, traceable), có lẽ (aiblins, haply, maybe, possibly, praps). (various references)

Welsh		ysgatfydd (peradventure), hwyrach, feallai (peradventure), efallai (maybe, peradventure), atfydd. (various references)

Yucatec		wale' (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), wal (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), talbes (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), kensa biixi' (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly), beyts'abile' (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)

Zulu		ngabe (maybe, mayhap, perchance, possibly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fortasse. (various references)
Middle English	1100-1500	per, par. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 5, Verse 7
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	MoliV gar uper dikaiou tiV apoqaneitai uper gar tou agaqou taca tiV kai tolma apoqanein
Latin	405	Vulgate	Vix enim pro iusto quis moritur nam pro bono forsitan quis et audeat mori
Old English	990	West Saxon	Swiðe seldon wile man for þæm rihtwisan feallan, þeah for godan eaðe durre man sweltan.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For vnnethis dieth ony man for the iust man; and yit for a good man perauenture summan dar die.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Yet scace will eny man dye for a rightewes man. Paraventure for a good ma durst a man dye.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 5, Verse 7
Cebuano	Talagsa ra nga adunay magpakamatay alang sa uban, bisan pa alang sa usa ka tawong matarung-- hinoon aduna gayud kahay mangako sa pagpakamatay alang sa usa ka maayong tawo.
Chinese	為義人死、是少有的、為仁人死、或者有敢作的。
Croatian	Zbilja, jedva bi tko za pravedna umro; možda bi se za dobra tko i odvažio umrijeti.
Danish	Næppe vil nemlig nogen dø for en retfærdig - for den gode var der jo måske nogen, som tog sig på at dø -,
Dutch	Want nauwelijks zal iemand voor een rechtvaardige sterven; want voor den goede zal mogelijk iemand ook bestaan te sterven.
Finnish	Tuskinpa kukaan käy kuolemaan jonkun vanhurskaan edestä; hyvän edestä joku mahdollisesti uskaltaa kuolla.
French	A peine mourrait-on pour un juste; quelqu`un peut-être mourrait-il pour un homme de bien.
German	Nun stirbt kaum jemand um eines Gerechten willen; um des Guten willen dürfte vielleicht jemand sterben.
Haitian Creole	Se pa fasil pou ou jwenn yon moun asepte mouri pou yon nonm ki gen rezon. Ou ta ka jwenn yonn konsa ki ta gen kouraj mouri pou yon nonm debyen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Untuk seseorang yang adil pun sukar orang mau mati. Barangkali untuk seseorang yang baik, ada juga orang yang berani mati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Karena jarang sangat seorang mau mati karena orang yang benar. Barangkali karena orang yang baik ada juga orang yang berani mati.
Maori	E mate whakauaua hoki tetahi mo te tangata tika: tera pea ia tetahi e maia rawa kia mate mo te tangata pai.
Norwegian	For neppe vil nogen gå i døden for en rettferdig - for en som er god, kunde kanskje nogen ta sig på å dø -
Portuguese	Porque dificilmente haverá quem morra por um justo; pois poderá ser que pelo homem bondoso alguém ouse morrer.
Rumanian	Pentru un om neprihqnit cu greu ar muri cineva; dar pentru binefqcqtorul lui, poate cq s`ar gqsi cineva sq moarq.
Shuar	Shuar Chíkich shuaran uwemtikratniun ¿jaruktatuak? Pénker shuar ain jarukchattawai. Kame ti penkeraitkiuinkia jarukchaintiash.
Spanish	Difícilmente muere alguno por un justo. Con todo, podría ser que alguno osara morir por el bueno.
Swahili	Si rahisi mtu kufa kwa ajili ya mtu mwadilifu; labda mtu anaweza kuthubutu kufa kwa ajili ya mtu mwema.
Swedish	Näppeligen vill ju eljest någon dö ens för en rättfärdig man -- om nu ock till äventyrs någon kan hava mod att dö för den som har gjort honom gott --
Uma	Hi gau' manusia', molaka tarua' tauna to dota mate mposampei doo-na to uma masala'. Ane doo-na toe tauna to lompe' lia nono-na, meka' ria moto nte hadua to daho' mate mposampei-i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "perhaps": perhapses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Perhaps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pehaps, peharps, perdas, perhap, perhapse, perhapses, perharps, Permas, perphaps, prehaps, prhaps, Pteraspis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "perhaps" (pronounced perha"ps)
3	-a" p s	caps, chaps, claps, collapse, craps, elapse, flaps, gaps, laps, lapse, maps, naps, raps, relapse, saps, schnapps, scraps, slaps, snaps, straps, taps, traps, wraps, yaps, zaps.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-p-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: papers, phrase, raphes, sapper, seraph, shaper, sherpa.
	-2 letters: apers, apres, asper, ephas, hares, harps, heaps, hears, paper, pares, parse, pears, perps, phase, prase, preps, presa, rapes, raphe, reaps, repps, rheas, shape, share, sharp, shear, spare, spear.
	-3 letters: aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, epha, eras, haes, haps, hare, harp, hasp, heap, hear, hers.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-p-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: preshape, prophase, sapphire, whappers.
	+2 letters: copperahs, epigraphs, perhapses, preshaped, preshapes, prophages, prophases, sapphires, scrapheap.
	+3 letters: apostrophe, apprehends, approaches, epiphragms, hyperopias, hyperpneas, hyperspace, paraphrase, paraphyses, phalaropes, preshaping, sapphirine, saprophyte, scrapheaps, supersharp.
	+4 letters: apostrophes, carpophores, copperheads, epigraphers, epigraphies, epigraphist, fleahoppers, grasshopper, hippocrases, hyperplanes, hyperplasia, hyperspaces, leafhoppers, paraphrased, paraphraser, paraphrases, partnership, peripherals, periphrases, periphrasis, planisphere, praetorship, prepurchase, primateship, prophylaxes, saprophytes, slaphappier, speakership, spheroplast, transhipped.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
perhaps love	39	caused due fallen instability perhaps	3
perhaps perhaps perhaps	21	perhaps lyrics	3
perhaps	21	denver domingo john love perhaps placido	3
love lyrics perhaps	10	midi perhaps perhaps perhaps	3
lyrics perhaps perhaps perhaps	8	careless error he make perhaps seemingly she	2
denver john love perhaps	8	by denver john love perhaps	2
i perhaps rufio suppose	7	cummings hand like perhaps spring	2
love mp3 perhaps	5	cake lyrics perhaps	2
day doris perhaps perhaps perhaps	4	perhaps perhaps	2
i perhaps suppose	4	add additional forgot hierarchy his level maslow one perhaps	2
absolutely perhaps	4	love midi perhaps	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Statues" by Michael Mingucci Commentary: "Church in Central Europe, perhaps Poland."	"Ghost on the shore" by Roger Kirby Commentary: "This was taken at 6am, there was no one on the shore, no one, now take a look at the photo. Perhaps my digital is ghosting me?."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Perhaps

Definition: Perhaps

Perhaps

Adverb

Synonyms: Perhaps

Synonyms within Context: Perhaps

Possibility

Supposition

Crosswords: Perhaps

Modern Usage: Perhaps

Screenplays

Lyrics

Tongue Twisters

Commercial Usage: Perhaps

Books

Periodicals

Music

Photo Album: Perhaps

Digital Photo Gallery: Perhaps

Familiar Quotations: Perhaps

Francois Rabelais

Honore de Balzac

Iris Murdoch

Robert Bresson

Samuel Johnson

Virgil

William L. Shirer

Historic Usage: Perhaps

John Locke

Winston S. Churchill

Brown v. Board of Education

John F. Kennedy

Use in Literature: Perhaps

Emma

Austen, Jane

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Perhaps

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Perhaps

Ellen Levin

James Lipton

John McCain

Robert Atkins

Speeches: Perhaps

John Adams

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Franklin Pierce

Abraham Lincoln

Harry S. Truman

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ronald Reagan

George Bush

Usage Frequency: Perhaps

Expressions: Perhaps

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Perhaps

Modern Translation: Perhaps

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Basque