English Dictionary

serendipity

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.

日本語の意味

偶然の出来事が重なり、予期しない素晴らしい結果をもたらす現象 / 思いがけない幸運が連鎖的に発生する状態

Meeting my future business partner at a neighborhood café was pure serendipity, since that unexpected chat turned into a successful collaboration.

近所のカフェで将来の事業パートナーに出会ったのは幸運な偶然で、その思いがけない会話が成功する協力関係につながった。

意味（1）

A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.

The most random serendipity brought the two of us together, and now, we are happily married! If I was just 15 seconds slower, I'd have never met her! This discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word, which, as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavour to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip; as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right – now do you understand Serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental Sagacity, (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description,) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who, happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table.

意味（2）

An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damn difficult.

意味（3）

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

serendipities （ plural ）