hap
[noun]
Synonyms: accident, chance, fortuity, luck
[verb]
Synonyms: happen, befall, betide, break, chance, come off, develop, go, occur, transpire
[verb]
Synonyms: bundle up, muffle, wrap (up)

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Related Words: destiny, fate, lot, portion

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

hap verb² trans. [hap] Now only Scot. & dial. Infl. -pp-. ME.
[Prob. of Scandinavian origin]
Cover; esp. cover with bedclothes or extra clothing, wrap up warmly, (foll. by up.).

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hap noun. [hap] arch. ME.
[Old Norse happ rel. to Old English ġehæp(lić) fitting, convenient, orderly.]
1. The fortune (good or bad) that falls to a person; one's lot. ME.
■ W. Waring It has not been my hap to meet with it elsewhere.

2. A fortuitous occurrence, a happening; esp. an unfortunate event, a mischance. ME.
■ George Eliot All the 'haps' of my life are so indifferent.

3. Success, prosperity, good fortune. ME-E19.

4. Chance considered as determining events. ME.
by hap, through hap casually, by chance.
Quiver By curious hap..[she] was actually located at 'The Beeches'.

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hap verb¹ intrans. [hap] arch. & dial. Infl. -pp-. Pa. t. & pple happed, hapt. ME.
[from the noun: superseded by HAPPEN verb.]
1. Of an event etc.: come about by chance. (Freq. with impers. subj.; formerly also with person affected as indirect obj.) ME.
■ Tennyson Never had huger slaughter of heroes..Hapt in this isle.

2. Have the fortune or luck to do. LME.
■ J. Gay A maiden fine bedight he hapt to love.

3. Foll. by on, upon: meet with or find by chance. LME.
■ A. B. Grosart [This book] I have not been fortunate enough to hap upon.

4. Have luck of a specified kind; fare (well, ill, etc.). LME-E17.

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