happenstance

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++hap·pen·stance /ˈhæpənstæns/ noun [countable, uncountable] literary  LUCKYchance, or something that happens by chance 机遇；巧合(之事)

Examples from the Corpus

happenstance• We go to any lengths to avoid such a happenstance in baseball.• And they both landed by happenstance rather than design in the Motor City.• No, happenstance will never make for beauty.• In deep antiquity, vast, sprawling empires rose and fell, usually the result of happenstance rather than deliberation.• Through either grace or happenstance, the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.• In this happenstance, faithful friend Lobo, these white ladies would pay anything for milk.• They have, through happenstance, and the nature of urban life that crunches lives and experiences together, simply become entangled.• Dunning and Sasbach, two inconspicuous villages which happenstance has made part of my experience.Origin happenstance (1800-1900) happen + circumstance

hap·pen·stance nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus or chance, something that by chance happens

happenstance
hap‧pen‧stance /ˈhæpənstæns/ noun [uncountable and countable] literarychance, or something that happens by chance

hap·pen·stanceBrE /ˈhæpənstæns/ 🔊, also /ˈhæpənstɑːns/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhæpənstæns/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] (literary) chance, especially when it results in sth good 偶然情况；（尤指）机遇