Hap meaning

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An occurrence or happening, esp. an unfortunate one.
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To occur by chance; happen.
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To cover, as with extra bedclothes.
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Any covering.
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That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
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(intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
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(literary) To happen to.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
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(dialect) To wrap or clothe.
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The definition of a hap is something happening or that happens by chance.

An example of a hap is winning the lottery.

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Fortune; chance.
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A happening; an occurrence.
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To happen.
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Chance; luck; lot.
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Origin of hap

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), from Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).

Sentence Examples

  • They sailed from R Southampton for Treport in a yacht, and, as it hap with pened to be raining hard when they embarked, the foreign " i.

  • So that the Hap u cavcot (Herod.

  • Then abruptly she turned and went in, leaving my cousins side by side wishing me good hap.

  • too, too forgetful of thine own affairs, Why wilt thou so betray thy son's good hap?

  • The early explorers of the great Southern Sea cheered themselves with the companionship of the albatross in its dreary solitudes; and the evil hap of him who shot with his cross-bow the bird of good omen is familiar to readers of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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