hope
IPA: hˈoʊp
noun
- (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
- A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
- A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
- An English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hop, a small enclosed valley.
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A place name, including:
- A place in Canada:
- A town and district municipality in British Columbia.
- A community in the city of Vaughan, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario.
- A township municipality in Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
- A settlement near Richmond, Tasman district, New Zealand.
- A village in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1783).
- A village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3058).
- A number of places in the United States:
- A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
- An unincorporated community in La Paz County, Arizona.
- A city, the county seat of Hempstead County, Arkansas.
- A minor city in Bonner County, Idaho.
- A township in LaSalle County, Illinois
- An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois.
- A town in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana.
- A township and minor city therein, in Dickinson County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
- A town in Knox County, Maine.
- A township in Barry County, Michigan.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Midland County, Michigan.
- A township in Lincoln County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
- A village in Eddy County, New Mexico.
- A town in Hamilton County, New York.
- A minor city in Steele County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio.
- A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Cottage Grove and city of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.
- A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
- To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
- (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
- (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
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Examples of "hope" in Sentences
- I hope you will kindly let me have a few lines of _hope_ by the
- I hope and _hope_ they'll keep on being sorry -- because they'll be that much gladder when I come back.
- "I only ask you not to quite forget me, though I hope -- _I hope_ -- I shall never look upon your sweet face again."
- "I hope," returned the captain of the Fire Brigade icily -- "I _hope_ that is not the spirit in which you propose to go through life.
- And on being told that we felt no doubt, her diffident mind seemed comforted; "but," she added, "I want assurance: I hope; but I don't feel sure -- I do _hope_ in Christ."
- hi Nanditha, hope u remmeber me..havent been to the blog sphere for a long time now..hope all is well with u...the cake is yummm..but one doubt, is it a must to have baking soda in cake recipes with bananas?
- MY DEAREST UNCLE, -- A few lines I must write to you to express to you my _very great_ delight at the certainty, God willing, of seeing you all _three_ next week, and to express a hope, and a _great hope_, that you will try and arrive a little earlier on Wednesday ....
- Oh, I hope, I _hope_ you will not waste two years more of your life, but if you do, if as you read these last lines that I shall ever write, the question is unsettled, I charge you by the memory of your sister, by the love you bear her not to wait another _moment_ -- not one.
- Diary Entry by virginius "gin" arnold (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Let us all take a deep breath and hope'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Maybe it became trendy to scoff at the use of the word \'hope\' but there is a time and place for its use. maybe this is a good time. '
- Verbs that have no Participial Stem, express the Future Infinitive Active and Passive by fore ut or futūrum esse ut, with the Subjunctive; as, -- spērō fore ut tē paeniteat levitātis, _I hope you will repent of your fickleness_ (lit. _hope it will happen that you repent_); spērō futūrum esse ut hostēs arceantur, _I hope that the enemy will be kept off_.a. The Periphrastic Future Infinitive is often used, especially in the
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