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perchance

adverb

1 perchance

Through chance:
— To sleep, perchance to dream....

synonym: by chance.

Roget 156: by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance etc. (possibly) 470; for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; ... show more

2 perchance

By chance.

synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly.

Roget 470: possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply, mayhap.    if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente [Lat.], D.   V.; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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