perhaps

名词 n. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /pəˈhæps/|/pəˈɹæps/|/ˈpɹæps/    美 /pɚˈhæps/|/ˈpɹæps/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
副词 adv.
  1. Possibly. not-comparable
    — Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
  2. By chance. dated,not-comparable
    — […] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.

词形变化

perhap alternative perhapses plural perhap alternative

词汇关系

近义词
bechance belike maybe mayhap mayhaps peradventure perchance
衍生词
perhappenstance perhapsy
相关词
perhapser

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
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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