Hap

Quick meaning: Hap is a noun meaning (uncountable) A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.

Meaning

(uncountable) A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.
2. (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
3. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
4. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
5. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
6. (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) 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.
7. (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. [from 20th c.]

Example Sentences

[I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]

"We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."

Each day ſtill better others happineſſe, Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap, Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.

"But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,.

Word Forms

• haps
• happing
• happed

Synonyms for hap

Depending on context, synonyms include hazard, serendipity, affairs, occur, transpire, bechance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include happen, occur, go on, pass, chance, fortune.

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