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noun, feminine

chance

/ʃɑ̃s/

noun, feminine/ʃɑ̃s/plural: chances

chance; luck; Immigrant of non-European heritage, short for "chance pour la France".

Il y a des fortes chances que vos neurones fonctionnent bienThere's every chance your neurons are working well

From Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”). Doublet of cadence, a borrowing from Italian.