English Explanatory Dictionary

Come By Chance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town on the Avalon Peninsula isthmus, in east Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  2. A locality in Walgett Shire, northern New South Wales, Australia.

Pronunciation

/ˈkʌm baɪ ˈt͡ʃæns/

Word forms

Come By Chance

Etymology

The town in Newfoundland may have been named for the use of the area around the town as a staging ground for surprise attacks by French soldiers during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714).

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