• (RP) enPR: hōp, IPA: /həʊp/
• (America) IPA: /hoʊp/

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian, from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear.

hope (hopes, present participle hoping; simple past and past participle hoped)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

   I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.

   I am still hoping that all will turn out well.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Psalms cxix:81 ↗:

     I hope in thy word.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Psalms xlii:11 ↗:

     Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

   I hope you all the best.

• (antonym(s) of “to want something to happen, with the expectation it might”): wish

• French: espérer
• German: hoffen
• Italian: sperare
• Portuguese: esperar
• Russian: наде́яться
• Spanish: esperar, esperanzarse

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa, from the same source as the verb hope.

hope

1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

   I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.

   After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.

   There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:

     My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.

2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

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

4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, 1 Corinthians 13:13 ↗:

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

• forlorn hope

• French: espoir, espérance
• German: Hoffnung
• Italian: speranza
• Portuguese: esperança
• Russian: наде́жда
• Spanish: esperanza

• French: espoir
• German: Hoffnung
• Italian: speranza
• Portuguese: esperança
• Russian: наде́жда
• Spanish: esperanza

From Middle English hope, from Old English hōp (found only in placenames).

hope (plural hopes)

1. (Should we move, merge or split^{([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3ARequests+for+moves%2C+mergers+and+splits&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Template:rfm-sense/preload&preloadtitle=%5B%5BHope+-+valleys%23rfm-sense-notice-en-%7chope%5D%5D +])} this sense?) (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.

From Icelandic hóp.

hope (plural hopes)

1. (Should we move, merge or split^{([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3ARequests+for+moves%2C+mergers+and+splits&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Template:rfm-sense/preload&preloadtitle=%5B%5BHope+-+valleys%23rfm-sense-notice-en-%7chope%5D%5D +])} this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC ↗:

     A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea […] It was called Wolf's Hope (i.e. Wolf's Haven).

• (America) IPA: /ˈhoʊp/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈhəʊp/

1. A female given name from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
2. Surname for someone who lived in a hope, a small enclosed valley.
3. (rare) A male given name.
4. A place name, including:
   1. A place in Canada:
      1. A town/and/distmun in British Columbia.
      2. A community in Vaughan, York.
      3. A township municipality in Bonaventure.
   2. A settlement near Richmond.
   3. A place in the United Kingdom:
      1. A village/and/cpar in High Peak (OS grid ref SK1783).
      2. A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ3401).
      3. A hamlet in Alstonefield, Staffordshire Moorlands (OS grid ref SK1255).
      4. A village/and/wcomm in Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ3058).
   4. A number of places in USA:
      1. CDP in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
      2. An ucomm in La Paz County, Arizona.
      3. A city/county seat in Hempstead County, Arkansas.
      4. A minor city in Bonner County, Idaho.
      5. A twp in LaSalle County, Illinois
      6. An ucomm in Vermilion County, Illinois.
      7. A town in Haw Creek, Bartholomew County.
      8. A twp/and/minor city therein, in Dickinson County.
      9. An ucomm in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
      10. A town in Knox County, Maine.
      11. A twp in Barry County, Michigan.
      12. A twp/and/ucomm therein, in Midland County.
      13. A twp in Lincoln County, Minnesota.
      14. An ucomm in Osage County, Missouri.
      15. A twp/and/CDP therein, in Warren County.
      16. A village in Eddy County, New Mexico.
      17. A town in Hamilton County, New York.
      18. A minor city in Steele County, North Dakota.
      19. An ucomm in Brown, Vinton County.
      20. A neighbourhood in Providence, Rhode Island.
      21. An ucomm in Cottage Grove, and.
      22. A settlement on Saint Croix.

• French: Espérance, Nadège (from Slavic), Nadine (from Nadia (pet form from Надежда) + -ine)
• Italian: Speranza
• Portuguese: Esperança
• Russian: Наде́жда
• Spanish: Esperanza