Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chance_event
1 sense of chance event
Sense 1
accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event -- (anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity")
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event -- (an event that happens)