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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
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Meaning of "perhaps" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERHAPS

Perhappes, from per by + happes chance, hap1.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERHAPS

perhaps  [pəˈhæps] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERHAPS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perhaps is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES PERHAPS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Perhaps

Perhaps may refer to: ▪ Perhaps, the fourth album released by the Scottish New Wave band Associates ▪ "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás", "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" in English, a popular song ▪ Perhaps, English title of the 1999 French science fiction film Peut-être...

Definition of perhaps in the English dictionary

The definition of perhaps in the dictionary is possibly; maybe. Other definition of perhaps is it may happen, be so, etc; maybe.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERHAPS


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æps
baps
bæps
chaps
tʃæps
collapse
kəˈlæps
craps
kræps
daps
dæps
elapse
ɪˈlæps
lapse
læps
Mapes
mæps
pettichaps
ˈpetɪˌtʃæps
prolapse
ˈprəʊlæps
relapse
rɪˈlæps
schnapps
ʃnæps
schnaps
ʃnæps
scraps
skræps
shaps
ʃæps
shnaps
ʃnæps
synapse
ˈsaɪnæps
taps
tæps
traps
træps

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERHAPS

perfuse
perfused
perfusion
perfusionist
perfusive
pergameneous
pergamentaceous
Pergamum
pergola
Pergolesi
peri
periagua
periaktos
perianth
periapsis
periapt
periastron
periblast
periblem
peribolos

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERHAPS

Black Caps
by one´s bootstraps
clips
corps
drops
fps
give it heaps
give them heaps
heaps
hit one´s straps
Kbps
keep under wraps
keeps
oops
Ops
ps
shoot craps
steps
the Black Caps
tops

Synonyms and antonyms of perhaps in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERHAPS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «perhaps» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of perhaps

Translation of «perhaps» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERHAPS

Find out the translation of perhaps to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of perhaps from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «perhaps» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

或许
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quizá
570 millions of speakers

English

perhaps
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शायद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لَعَّلَّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

возможно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

talvez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সম্ভবত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peut-être
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

mungkin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vielleicht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ことによると
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아마
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbok menawa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒருவேளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कदाचित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belki
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

forse
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

być może
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

можливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενδεχομένως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

miskien
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kanske
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

muligens
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perhaps

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERHAPS»

The term «perhaps» is very widely used and occupies the 3.919 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERHAPS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «perhaps» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «perhaps» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about perhaps

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10 QUOTES WITH «PERHAPS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word perhaps.
1
Lloyd Alexander
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
2
James Baldwin
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
3
Greg Bear
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
4
Paul Berg
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
5
Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Jo Beverley
I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.
7
Gary Ryan Blair
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
8
George Boole
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
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F. H. Bradley
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
10
Vince Cable
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERHAPS»

Discover the use of perhaps in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to perhaps and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Elsewhere, Perhaps
"A generous imagination at work. [Oz’s] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity." — New York Times Book Review Situated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz’s fictional community of ...
Amos Oz, 1985
2
Perhaps.
A collection of short fiction by Stephen Schwegler. In fact, one might go so far as to say the single greatest collection of short fiction by Stephen Schwegler known to man or beast!
Stephen Schwegler, 2010
3
How to Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) on a Teacher's Salary
Briefly presents advice to remain financially stable while receiving a teaching salary, and covers retirement, investments, budgeting, and other related topics.
Danny Kofke, 2007
4
The Great Perhaps
. . Meno's characters bristle with humanity, and I think this book will find a huge audience for its wisdom and life-affirming, but unsentimental, qualities' Daily Telegraph
Joe Meno, 2011
5
Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems
This selection of just over sixty poems made by his friend and literary executor, Hubert Nicholson, contains the best of A. S. J. Tessimond. And the best of A. S. J. Tessimond is good.
A. S. J. Tessimond, 2011
6
Absolutely! (perhaps)
Franco Zeferelli's production of Luigi Pirandello's brilliant comedy was a West End hit in 2003 and is scheduled to open on Broadway.
Martin Sherman, Luigi Pirandello, 2003
7
Perhaps Tomorrow
Mattie Maguire is a twenty-six-year-old widow with an infant son.
Jean Fullerton, 2011
8
Perhaps in God's Lifetime!
Maggie's life is full of surprises as she captures your heart as soon as you step into the first page of this fascinating autobiographical novel.
Maggie Helen Harries, 2009
9
Simulations and the Future of Learning: An Innovative (and ...
With this book Aldrich, a leader in the e-learning field, has created an intriguing roadmap for the future of learning while taking us along on an entertaining rollercoaster ride of trial and error, success and failure.
Clark Aldrich, 2003
10
Living in Perhaps
Carol has always resented her family.
Julia Widdows, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERHAPS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term perhaps is used in the context of the following news items.
1
BP's $18.7 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement provides relief, but …
Though perhaps no amount of money would be sufficient to compensate for the tremendous damage caused by the spill, BP will have paid ... «PRI, Jul 15»
2
End Of The World? Not Yet, But Perhaps In 2100, Scientists Claim
Scientists previously predicted that the end of the world would happen around 2050. A new study, however, claims that the Earth would run out ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
3
Straight to University at 18? Perhaps Think Twice
So perhaps we should take note of those crazy, beautiful Scandinavian lefties up there and just let young people be young and a bit useless for a while. I think it ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
4
TPP talks to resume Tuesday, perhaps for final time
WASHINGTON – Negotiators from the U.S., Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim countries could put the finishing touches on the most ambitious ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
5
Tech Test: Apple Music has everything, perhaps too much
Apple's new music service is a valiant effort to catch up in the emerging business of offering unlimited music on demand for a monthly price. «The Columbian, Jul 15»
6
Yankees SP Nathan Eovaldi has perhaps best start of season
Yankees starter Nathan Eovaldi has been bailed out by the bats often this year, which explains his 9-2 record despite a 4.43 ERA heading into ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
7
Is the big rebound in housing rational? Perhaps not
Home prices have rebounded. They are up 27 percent nationwide since 2012 and even more in cities like San Francisco. Do you worry about ... «The Real Deal South Florida, Jul 15»
8
Ya'alon 'perhaps a post-Zionist' for opposing 'Hatikva' requirement …
"Ya'alon's position once again reveals that he is not part of the nationalist camp," Ilatov said. "Perhaps he is part of the post-Zionist camp.". «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
9
AWS Skyrockets Despite, And Perhaps Thanks To, Price Cuts
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Amazon has upset the traditional model of IT as a cost center. By leveraging its investments in both ... «The Platform, Jul 15»
10
Review: Manfrotto KLYP+, the fun iPhonography kit at perhaps a …
As Apple's Shot on iPhone ad campaign illustrates, the iPhone is a capable camera in the right hands. Many people find that it's the only ... «9 to 5 Mac, Jul 15»

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