Usually means: Coincidence or chance occurrence; serendipity.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word happenstance:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. happenstance: Merriam-Webster
  2. happenstance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. happenstance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. happenstance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. happenstance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Happenstance, happenstance: Wordnik
  7. happenstance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. happenstance: Wiktionary
  9. happenstance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. happenstance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. happenstance: Dictionary.com
  12. Happenstance (Fozzy album), Happenstance (Rachael Yamagata album), Happenstance (film), Happenstance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. happenstance: Rhymezone
  14. happenstance: FreeDictionary.org
  15. happenstance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. happenstance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. happenstance: Infoplease Dictionary
  18. happenstance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Happenstance (album), happenstance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happenstance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happenstance: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.
noun:  (countable) A chance or random event or circumstance.

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