hope
see also: Hope
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Hope
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Hope
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian, from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear.
Verbhope (hopes, present participle hoping; simple past and past participle hoped)
- (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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nounhope
- (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.
- (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- (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.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
- 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).
Nounhope (plural hopes)
- (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.
Nounhope (plural hopes)
- (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.
- (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).
Hope
Pronunciation Proper noun
- A female given name from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
- Surname for someone who lived in a hope, a small enclosed valley.
- (rare) A male given name.
- A place name, including:
- A place in Canada:
- A town/and/distmun in British Columbia.
- A community in Vaughan, York.
- A township municipality in Bonaventure.
- A settlement near Richmond.
- A place in the United Kingdom:
- A village/and/cpar in High Peak (OS grid ref SK1783).
- A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ3401).
- A hamlet in Alstonefield, Staffordshire Moorlands (OS grid ref SK1255).
- A village/and/wcomm in Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ3058).
- A number of places in USA:
- CDP in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
- An ucomm in La Paz County, Arizona.
- A city/county seat in Hempstead County, Arkansas.
- A minor city in Bonner County, Idaho.
- A twp in LaSalle County, Illinois
- An ucomm in Vermilion County, Illinois.
- A town in Haw Creek, Bartholomew County.
- A twp/and/minor city therein, in Dickinson County.
- An ucomm in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
- A town in Knox County, Maine.
- A twp in Barry County, Michigan.
- A twp/and/ucomm therein, in Midland County.
- A twp in Lincoln County, Minnesota.
- An ucomm in Osage County, Missouri.
- A twp/and/CDP therein, in Warren County.
- A village in Eddy County, New Mexico.
- A town in Hamilton County, New York.
- A minor city in Steele County, North Dakota.
- An ucomm in Brown, Vinton County.
- A neighbourhood in Providence, Rhode Island.
- An ucomm in Cottage Grove, and.
- A settlement on Saint Croix.
- A place in Canada:
- French: Espérance, Nadège (from Slavic), Nadine (from Nadia (pet form from Надежда) + -ine)
- Italian: Speranza
- Portuguese: Esperança
- Russian: Наде́жда
- Spanish: Esperanza
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