[syn: possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Perchance \Per*chance"\ (p[~e]r*ch[.a]ns"), adv. [F. par by (L.
per) + chance. See Par, and Chance.]
By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
perchance
adv 1: through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." [syn:
perchance, by chance]
2: 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" [syn: possibly,
perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "perchance":
accidentally, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance,
by good fortune, by hazard, casually, conceivably, feasibly,
for some reason, fortuitously, haply, imaginably, in some way,
incidentally, it may be, maybe, perhaps, possibly, somehow,
somehow or other, unpredictably