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In some senses, hap is marked as archaic, literary, slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
hap
/hæp/
noun 7verb 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
good, heedless, single
VERB + HAP
enuying, knows
HAP + NOUN
adde, befalls, immortall, parents', thee, tons, year
PREP.
through, up
ADV.
somewhere
Definitions
noun
1
A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
2
A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.
Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.
And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.
verb
1
To happen; to befall; to chance.
"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,....
"We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."
2
To happen to.
What meaneth June, to hap us every year.
noun
1
Happenings; events; goings-on.
Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?" Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"
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Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.
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And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.
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Each day ſtill better others happineſſe, Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap, Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.
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"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,....
Wiktionary05
"We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."
Wiktionary06
What meaneth June, to hap us every year.
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