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perhaps

per·haps

UK/pəˈhæps/ US/pəˈɹæps/ very common

adverb

1.

by chance

  • “perhaps she will call tomorrow”
  • “we may possibly run into them at the concert”
  • “it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time”
Synonyms

Origin

From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per- + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).

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