Meaning

3 senses

  1. (archaic, intransitive, literary)To happen; to befall; to chance.

  2. (archaic, literary, transitive)To happen to.

  3. (archaic, dialectal)To wrap, clothe.

More definitions
  • come to pass

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Year in and year out in this place we have naught but these little haps to lighten our thoughts.

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Origin

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or 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”).

Inherited from Old English hap.

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Forms

haps, happing, happed, happed
Base formhap · to hap
3rd person singularhaps
Present participlehapping
Past simplehapped
Past participlehapped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhap
he, she, ithaps

Past simpleLesson

all personshapped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave happed
he, she, ithas happed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hap

Synonyms

24 synonyms
occurB1chanceA2happenA1holdA2passA2tideB1come to passtranspirebechancebefallbehapbetidebetimecome about

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbehap

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hanjahankhankerhaphazardC2haplessC2
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