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}]
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]
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