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21perhaps — /peuhr haps /, adv. maybe; possibly: Perhaps the package will arrive today. [1520 30; earlier perhappes, perhapis by haps. See PER, HAP1, S1] * * * …
22perhaps — [16] The phrase by hap or by haps ‘by chance’ originated in the 14th century (hap ‘chance’, a borrowing from Old Norse, now survives in the derived happen). In the 16th century it was transformed into perhaps on the model of perchance [14] and… …
23perhaps — adverb perhaps they ll get married Syn: maybe, for all one knows, it could be, it may be, it s possible, possibly, conceivably; literary peradventure, perchance …
24perhaps — /pəˈhæps / (say puh haps), /præps / (say praps) adverb 1. maybe; possibly. 2. Rare by chance: unless, perhaps, you are going that way yourself? {Middle English par happes by chances} …
25perhaps — [16] The phrase by hap or by haps ‘by chance’ originated in the 14th century (hap ‘chance’, a borrowing from Old Norse, now survives in the derived happen). In the 16th century it was transformed into perhaps on the model of perchance [14] and… …
26perhaps — adverb by chance (Freq. 123) 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 • Syn: ↑possibly, ↑perchance, ↑maybe, ↑ …
27perhaps — I. adverb Etymology: per + hap Date: 1528 possibly but not certainly ; maybe II. noun Date: 1534 something open to doubt or conjecture …
28perhaps — Synonyms and related words: blind guess, bold conjecture, conceivably, conjecture, feasibly, guess, haply, hunch, imaginably, it may be, maybe, perchance, possibly, rough guess, shot, speculation, stab, suppose, supposition, surmise, unverified… …
29perhaps — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. maybe, possibly, perchance, mayhap, conceivably. See chance, possibility, supposition. Ant., surely. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. conceivably, possibly, reasonably; see maybe . III (Roget s 3… …
30perhaps — per·haps || pÉ™(r) hæps; præps adv. maybe; possibly; could be …
