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- Dictionaryhap/hap/
noun
- 1. luck; fortune: "if you have the good hap to come into their houses"
verb
- 1. come about by chance: "what can hap to him worthy to be deemed evil?"
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1. : happening sense 1. 2. : chance, fortune. hap. 2 of 4. verb (1) happed; happing. intransitive verb. : happen. hap. 3 of 4. verb (2) happed; happing. transitive verb. dialect. : clothe, cover. hap. 4 of 4. noun (2)
noun. one's luck or lot. an occurrence, happening, or accident. verb (used without object) , happed, hap·ping. to happen: if it so hap. hap. 2. [ hap, ap ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun. a comforter or quilt. verb (used with object) to cover with or as with a comforter or quilt. Hap. 3. [ hahp, kh ahp ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun.
Definitions of hap. verb. come to pass. synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place. see more. noun. an accidental happening. “he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life”. see more.
1. luck; chance. 2. an occurrence. verb Word forms: haps, happing, happed. 3. (intransitive) an archaic word for happen. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C13: from Old Norse happ good luck; related to Old English gehæplic convenient, Old Slavonic kobǔ fate. Word Frequency. hap in British English.
From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), from Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob-(“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”).
hap. noun. 1. The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events: chance, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, hazard, luck. 2. An unexpected random event: accident, chance, fluke, fortuity, happenchance, happenstance, hazard. verb.
n. one's luck or lot. an occurrence, happening, or accident. v.i. to happen: if it so hap. Old Norse happ luck, chance; akin to Old English gehæp fit, convenient; probably akin to Old Church Slavonic kobù auspice, Old Irish cob victory. Middle English 1150–1200. hap2 (hap, ap), [ Chiefly Pennsylvania.] n. Dialect Terms a comforter or quilt. v.t.
