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From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
chance upon
v : find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old
tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally
struck the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, strike,
come upon, light upon, come across, chance on, happen
upon, attain, discover]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
chance upon
vb.
(lb en transitive idiomatic) To find#Verb (someone or something) by
chance#Noun.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
chance upon
vb.
(lb en transitive idiomatic) To find#Verb (someone or something) by
chance#Noun.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
chance upon
vb.
(lb en transitive idiomatic) To find#Verb (someone or something) by
chance#Noun.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
chance upon
vb.
(lb en transitive idiomatic) To find#Verb (someone or something) by
chance#Noun.
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
chance upon /tʃˈans əpˌɒn/
narazit na
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "chance upon":
alight upon, blunder upon, bump into, come across, come on,
come up against, come upon, discover serendipitously, encounter,
fall in with, happen upon, hit upon, light upon, meet up with,
meet with, run across, run into, run up against, stumble on,
stumble upon, tumble on
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