Meaning of perhaps | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Possibly.
   not-comparable
2. maybe, perhaps
3. By chance.
   dated, not-comparable
4. Maybe; possibly.
5. Possibly but not certainly:maybe, mayhap, perchance.
6. possibly. Perhaps it will rain. dalk, miskien رُبَّما може би talvez snad vielleicht måske ίσωςquizás, tal vez võib-olla شاید ehkä peut-êtreאולי संभवत: možda talán mungkin kannski, ef til vill forse たぶん 아마 galbūt iespējams, varbūt boleh jadi misschienkanskje, muligensbyć może بويه، ښايي، شايد، ودى شى talvez poate возможно asi mogoče možda kanske, möjligen บางที belki 也許 можливо شايد có thể 也许
7. possibly; maybe
8. it may happen, be so, etc; maybe
9. adv → vielleicht; perhaps the greatest exponent of the art → der möglicherweise bedeutendste Vertreter dieser Kunst; perhaps so → das kann or mag sein; perhaps not → vielleicht (auch) nicht; will he make a complete recovery? — perhaps not, but we are doing our best → wird er sich ganz erholen? — das vielleicht nicht, aber wir tun unser Bestes; perhaps I might keep it for a day or two? → könnte ich es vielleicht or eventuell für ein oder zwei Tage beha...
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Examples

“Perhaps John will come over for dinner.”

“There was a perhaps credible witness.”

“He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.”

“The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.”

“With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.”

“It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].”

“However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.”

“[…] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.”

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