Hope

//həʊp// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans. uncountable, usually

    "Hope Hicks, one of the President’s longest-serving aides, warned Parscale against touting ticket request numbers, reminding him that the number one rule in politics is not to overpromise and underdeliver, a source familiar with the matter said."

  2. 2
    An English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hope, a small enclosed valley. uncountable, usually
  3. 3
    A male given name transferred from the surname. rare, uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    A place name, including:; A place in Canada:; A town and district municipality in British Columbia. uncountable, usually
  5. 5
    A place name, including:; A place in Canada:; A community in the city of Vaughan, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A place in Canada:; A township municipality in Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A settlement near Richmond, Tasman district, New Zealand. uncountable, usually
  3. 8
    A place name, including:; A place in the United Kingdom:; A village and civil parish in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1783). uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A place in the United Kingdom:; A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3401). uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A place in the United Kingdom:; A hamlet in Alstonefield parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1255). uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A place in the United Kingdom:; A village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3058). uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in La Paz County, Arizona. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Hempstead County, Arkansas. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Bonner County, Idaho. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in LaSalle County, Illinois. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and minor city therein, in Dickinson County, Kansas. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kentucky. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Knox County, Maine. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Barry County, Michigan. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Midland County, Michigan. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Lincoln County, Minnesota. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A village in Eddy County, New Mexico. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Hamilton County, New York. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Steele County, North Dakota. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Cottage Grove and city of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. uncountable, usually
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    A place name, including:; A number of places in the United States:; A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands. uncountable, usually
Noun
  1. 1
    The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. countable, uncountable

    "All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack."

  2. 2
    A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe. Northern-England, Scotland
  3. 3
    A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  4. 4
    one of the three Christian virtues wordnet
  5. 5
    The actual thing wished for. countable
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  1. 6
    A small bay; an inlet; a haven. Scotland

    "Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope."

  2. 7
    grounds for feeling hopeful about the future wordnet
  3. 8
    A person or thing that is a source of hope. countable

    "We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table."

  4. 9
    a specific instance of feeling hopeful wordnet
  5. 10
    The virtuous desire for future good. uncountable

    "But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love."

  6. 11
    the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled wordnet
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    someone (or something) on which expectations are centered wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].

    "They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will."

  2. 2
    intend with some possibility of fulfilment wordnet
  3. 3
    To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)]. catenative

    "I hope to succeed."

  4. 4
    be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes wordnet
  5. 5
    To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for]. intransitive

    "They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good."

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    expect and wish wordnet
  2. 7
    To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in]. intransitive

    "I hope in thy word."

  3. 8
    To wish. dialectal, nonstandard, transitive

    "I hope you all the best."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian, West Frisian hoopje (“to hope”), Cimbrian hòffan (“to hope”), Dutch hopen (“to hope”), German, Luxembourgish hoffen (“to hope”), Vilamovian höfnan (“hope”), Yiddish האָפֿן (hofn, “to hope”), Danish håbe (“to hope”), Norwegian Bokmål håpe (“to hope”), Norwegian Nynorsk håpa, håpe (“to hope”), Swedish hoppas (“to hope”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope. Eclipsed non-native early modern English esperance, borrowed from Middle French esperance.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Etymology 4

From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.

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