| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: | h p |
| NOUN: | 1. Fortune; chance. 2. A happening; an occurrence. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: happed, hap·ping, haps To happen. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old Norse happ. See kob- in Appendix I.
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