perhaps

adverbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

United Kingdom//pəˈhæps//
United Kingdom//pəˈɹæps//
United Kingdom//ˈpɹæps//
United States//pɚˈhæps//

Possibly.

adverb

1
Possibly.
Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
There was a perhaps credible witness.
He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
2
datedBy chance.
[…] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin per Old French parbor. Middle English per- Proto-Indo-European *kob-der. Proto-Germanic *hampą Old Norse happbor. Middle English hap Middle English perhap Middle English perhappes ▲ Middle English perhap Middle English perhappous English perhaps 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).

noun

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.

Forms

plural: perhapses

performer · One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.performing · A performance.perfume · A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles…

perhaps · Possibly.

peril · A situation of serious and immediate danger.perimeter · The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an…period · A length of time.

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