EVEN CHANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does even chance mean? 

• EVEN CHANCE (noun)
  The noun EVEN CHANCE has 1 sense:

1. an unpredictable phenomenon

  Familiarity information: EVEN CHANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN CHANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unpredictable phenomenon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

even chance; toss-up; tossup

Context example:

it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose

Hypernyms ("even chance" is a kind of...):

chance; fortune; hazard; luck (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another)

 Context examples 

With the men in the temper they were in, it seemed an even chance if we should see the lad again.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She questioned him as to the society in Yorkshire—the extent of the neighbourhood about Enscombe, and the sort; and could make out from his answers that, as far as Enscombe was concerned, there was very little going on, that their visitings were among a range of great families, none very near; and that even when days were fixed, and invitations accepted, it was an even chance that Mrs. Churchill were not in health and spirits for going; that they made a point of visiting no fresh person; and that, though he had his separate engagements, it was not without difficulty, without considerable address at times, that he could get away, or introduce an acquaintance for a night.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)