CHANCE UPON

Meaning of CHANCE UPON in English

{v.} To happen to find or meet; find or meet by accident. * /On our vacation we chanced upon an interesting antique store./ * /Mary dropped her ring in the yard, and Mother chanced on it as she was raking./ Syn.: HAPPEN ON. Compare: RUN INTO.

Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012

CHANCE UPON — Synonyms and related words : alight upon, blunder upon, bump into, come across, come on, come up against, come upon, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE UPON — COME ACROSS/UPON, run across/into, happen on, light on, stumble on, find by chance, meet (by chance); informal bump into; archaic …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE UPON — {v.} To happen to find or meet; find or meet by accident. * /On our vacation we chanced upon an …
Словарь английских идиом
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer. ≈ Я случайно обнаружил эту …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CHANCE UPON — Отыскать
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CHANCE UPON — Открывать
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CHANCE UPON — Находить
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CHANCE UPON — Найти
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer.
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
CHANCE UPON — случайно найти, случайно наткнуться
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
CHANCE UPON — случайно найти, случайно наткнуться
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
CHANCE UPON — фраз. гл. ; = chance on случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced upon this old photograph in the back of the …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CHANCE UPON — фраз. гл.; - chance on случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced upon this old photograph in the back of the drawer. — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer.
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer.
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
CHANCE UPON — случайно натолкнуться; случайно встретить, наткнуться; неожиданно найти
Англо-Русский словарь английских идиом
CHANCE UPON — случайно наткнуться, найти I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer. ≈ Я случайно обнаружил эту …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
CHANCE UPON — случайно найти
Англо-Русский словарь
UPON — sur; concernent(e), pri. IMMEDIATELY ~: che, a
English interlingue dictionary
UPON — diha
English-Visayan vocabulary
UPON — I. preposition Date: 12th century on , II. adverb Date: 13th century on the surface ; on it, thereafter , …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
UPON — I. ə|pȯn, ə|pän, ə(|)pən sometimes ˌə|p- preposition Etymology: Middle English uppon, upon, from uppe & up up + on, preposition …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHANCE — I. ˈchan(t)s, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, -ȧ- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French cheance, chance, from (assumed) Vulgar …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
UPON — (prep.) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
Английский словарь Webster
UPON — ( prep. ) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
UPON — /euh pon", euh pawn"/ , prep. 1. up and on; upward so as to get or be on: He climbed …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHANCE — — chanceless , adj. /chans, chahns/ , n. , v. , chanced, chancing , adj. n. 1. the absence of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
UPON — prep. on, atop
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
UPON — I. ə-ˈpȯn, -ˈpän preposition Date: 12th century : on II. ə-ˈpȯn, -ˈpän adverb Date: 13th century 1. obsolete : on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHANCE — I. ˈchan(t)s noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin * cadentia fall, from Latin cadent-, cadens, present participle …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UPON — prep on; used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
Webster English vocab
CHANCE — adv by chance; perchance. 2. chance ·adj happening by chance; casual. 3. chance ·noun probability. 4. chance ·noun the operation …
Webster English vocab
UPON — ■ preposition more formal term for on . Origin ME: from up + on , suggested by ON upp á …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CHANCE — [chance] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. (assumed) VL cadentia fall, fr. L cadent-, cadens, prp. of cadere to fall; perh. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
UPON — upon BrE AmE ə ˈpɒn AmE \ ə ˈpɑːn -ˈpɔːn —There is also an occasional weak form əp ə n
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
UPON — / əˈpɒn; NAmE əˈpɑːn/ preposition 1. ( formal , especially BrE ) = on : The decision was based upon …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHANCE — / tʃɑːns; NAmE tʃæns/ noun , verb , adjective ■ noun 1. [ C , U ] chance of doing …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UPON — up ‧ on S2 W1 /əˈpɒn $ əˈpɑːn/ BrE AmE preposition formal [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Origin: up + on …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CHANCE — I. chance 1 S1 W1 /tʃɑːns $ tʃæns/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UPON — prep. = ON. ° Upon is sometimes more formal, and is preferred in once upon a time and upon my …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CHANCE — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
UPON — prep. = ON. ° Upon is sometimes more formal, and is preferred in once upon a time and upon my …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CHANCE — n., adj., & v. n. 1 a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CHANCE — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in …
Oxford English vocab
UPON — Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHANCE — ( chances, chancing, chanced) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If there …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UPON — Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
UPON — preposition COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES border on/upon obsession (= be almost as extreme as an obsession ) ▪ Sometimes his …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CHANCE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
UPON — preposition [slightly formal] - onThere was nothing upon the table but a few old plates.Upon her head she wore a …
Cambridge English vocab
UPON — Synonyms and related words : about, above, after which, against, anent, apropos of, as for, as regards, as respects, as …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — Synonyms and related words : a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — See: BY CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, STAND A CHANCE, TAKE A CHANCE.
Slang English vocab
CHANCE
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
UPON — • ↑ on/upon receipt of
Longman Activator English vocab
CHANCE — INDEX: when something happens by chance 1. when something happens without being planned 2. happening by chance 3. when things …
Longman Activator English vocab
CHANCE — See ↑ CHANCE 2,4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ an outside chance • ↑ blow it/blow your chance • ↑ by chance …
Longman Activator English vocab
CHANCE — n. 25B6; noun there was a chance he might be released : POSSIBILITY, prospect, probability, likelihood, likeliness, expectation, anticipation; risk, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — n. 1 fortune, luck, fate We met, as chance would have it, at the supermarket Life is but a game …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
UPON — {v. phr.} To latch onto. * /Whenever Herb is in a romantic mood, Irene seizes on it and starts talking …
Словарь английских идиом
CHANCE — See: BY CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, STAND A CHANCE, TAKE A CHANCE.
Словарь английских идиом
UPON — (полная форма); (редуцированная форма) = on 1. = on (часто является более книжным, однако в ряде случаев, приведенных ниже, употребляется …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

Slang English vocab

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