📖 Definitions
- The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
- Good fortune; luck, especially in a context where something valuable is found or achieved by accident.
- A person or thing that brings luck; a fortunate accident or stroke of good luck.
💡 Usage Example
"Meeting her old friend at the airport was pure serendipity, leading to a collaboration that changed both their careers."
🌍 Etymology
First known use: 1754. Coined by the English writer Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann, drawing from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip." "Serendip" was an old name for Sri Lanka, and the princes in the tale were constantly making discoveries by accident and sagacity of things they were not actively searching for.