hope

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To want something to happen and believe it might.

   I hope the weather stays nice for the weekend.

2. 2
   noun

   The feeling that something you want will happen.

   Despite the bad news, they never lost hope.

3. 3
   verb

   To plan to do something, expecting it to work out.

   I hope to finish this work by tomorrow evening.

4. 4
   noun

   A person or thing you are relying on for success.

   She was their best hope for a victory.

Common collocations

• last hope Adjective + noun
• give hope Verb + noun
• lose hope Verb + noun
• false hope Adjective + noun
• high hopes Adjective + noun
• express hope Verb + noun
• raise hopes Verb + noun
• faint hope Adjective + noun

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”).

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