Opportunities or possibilities for something to happen. Can also refer to the likelihood or probability of an event occurring.
From Old French 'cheance' meaning a falling (as of dice), from Latin 'cadere' meaning to fall. The concept evolved from describing random events to encompassing opportunities and probabilities by the 13th century.
The word 'chance' originally described the fall of dice, connecting random luck to mathematical probability - a relationship that wouldn't be fully understood until the development of probability theory centuries later. Every lottery ticket and weather forecast deals with the same fundamental concept ancient gamblers pondered.
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