Hope Definition

hōp
hoped, hopes, hoping
verb
hoped, hopes, hoping
To have hope; want and expect.
I hope to be there by 5:00
Webster's New World
To wish for a particular event that one considers possible.
We are hoping for more financial support.
American Heritage
To have hope (for)
Webster's New World
To trust or rely.
Webster's New World
To want very much.
I hope that your sick dog will recover.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
hopes
A feeling that what is wanted may happen; desire accompanied by expectation.
Webster's New World
An instance of such longing or desire.
Her hopes of becoming a doctor have not changed.
American Heritage
The thing that one has a hope for.
Webster's New World
A reason for hope.
Webster's New World
A person or thing on which one may base some hope.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A female given name from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.

Wiktionary

An English and Scottish topographic surname​ for someone who lived in a hop, a small enclosed valley.

Wiktionary

A town in Arkansas.

Wiktionary
A town in British Columbia.
Wiktionary
idiom
hope against hope
  • To hope with little reason or justification.
American Heritage
hope against hope
  • to continue having hope though it seems baseless
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Hope

Noun

Singular:
hope
Plural:
hopes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hope

Origin of Hope

  • From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from Proto-Germanic *hupǭ, *hupō (“hope”), from Proto-Germanic *hupōną (“to hope”), from Proto-Indo-European *kēwp-, *kwēp- (“to smoke, boil”). Cognate with West Frisian hope (“hope”), Dutch hoop (“hope”), Middle High German hoffe (“hope”), German hoffen (“hope”), Swedish hopp (“hope”). Extra-Germanic cognates include Latin cupio (“I desire, crave”), Albanian ngop (“I'm satisfied, sated”) and gopë (“greedy, voracious”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English hopen from Old English hopian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian.

    From Wiktionary

  • Compare Icelandic word for a small bay or inlet.

    From Wiktionary

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