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perhaps

//pəˈhæps//

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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Forms

Plural
perhapses

Definitions

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

  1. 1.Possibly.

    • There was a perhaps credible witness.
    • Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
    • He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.An uncertainty.

    • I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses.

Frequency

Overall

Common· #506

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Uncommon
General reading & writing
Common
Academic
Rare
Literature
Uncommon

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Etymology

From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).

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