What does Perhaps mean?

Definitions for Perhaps
pərˈhæpsper·haps

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventureadverb

    by chance

    "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Perhapsadverb

    Peradventure; it may be.

    Etymology: per and hap.

    Perhaps the good old man that kiss’d his son,
    And left a blessing on his head,
    His arms about him spread,
    Hopes yet to see him ere his glass be run. Thomas Flatman.

    Somewhat excellent may be invented, perhaps more excellent than the first design, though Virgil must be still excepted, when that perhaps takes place. Dryden.

    His thoughts inspir’d his tongue,
    And all his soul receiv’d a real love.
    Perhaps new graces darted from her eyes,
    Perhaps soft pity charm’d his yielding soul,
    Perhaps her love, perhaps her kingdom charm’d him. Smith.

ChatGPT

  1. perhaps

    Perhaps is an adverb that is used to express uncertainty or possibility; it indicates that something may happen or may be true but is not guaranteed or confirmed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Perhapsadverb

    by chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be

  2. Etymology: [Per + hap chance.]

Wikidata

  1. Perhaps

    Perhaps is the fourth album released by the Scottish New Wave band, Associates. It is the first album without founding multi-instrumentalist Alan Rankine.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Perhaps

    per-haps′, adv. it may be: possibly.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Perhaps' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #258

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Perhaps' in Written Corpus Frequency: #248

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Perhaps' in Adverbs Frequency: #40

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Perhaps in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Perhaps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Perhaps in a Sentence

  1. Albert Einstein:

    Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

  2. unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949:

    Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

  3. Perry Brass:

    Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

  4. John Sedunov:

    I’m sure someone saw, and I’m sure that somebody let it slide, because, again, if you’re in compliance with a lot of the big-picture things, perhaps they figured, well, they can survive something…What’s the likelihood that you’re gonna have $40 billion in withdrawals all at one time?

  5. Yuriy Ignat:

    Sometimes two of our pilots fight against 10 planes, they take off with a one-way ticket, they understand that perhaps they are going to die.

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