• v.
    ⦿come upon, as if by accident; meet with
    lexical concept
  • I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
  • She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
  • We find this idea in Plato

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:bump
  2. enl:chance
  3. enl:encounter
  4. enl:find
  5. enl:happen
wn:interlingual indexili:i32979

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • bumpchanceencounterfindhappen
  • chance