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See also:Hopeandhopë

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishhopen, fromOld Englishhopian(“hope”), fromProto-West Germanic*hopōn, further etymology unclear.

Cognates

Cognate withSaterland Frisian,West Frisianhoopje(“to hope”),Cimbrianhòffan(“to hope”),Dutchhopen(“to hope”),German,Luxembourgishhoffen(“to hope”),Vilamovianhöfnan(“hope”),Yiddishהאָפֿן(hofn,“to hope”),Danishhåbe(“to hope”),Norwegian Bokmålhåpe(“to hope”),Norwegian Nynorskhåpa,håpe(“to hope”),Swedishhoppas(“to hope”).

Verb

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hope (third-person singular simple presenthopes,present participlehoping,simple past and past participlehoped)

  1. Towant (something) tohappen, with a sense ofexpectation that itmight [withthat(+clause);or(informal)withclause;orwithsoor(negative)not].
    They arehoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.
    He's stillhoping that everything will turn out fine.
    — Is he going to shut up soon? — Ihope so.
    I'm going to get a new car. Ihope it will be better than the last one.
    I'dhoped I'd find a job, but I never did, so I washoping you could lend me some cash.
    Ihope {to - (that) I'll} have finished by next Satat the latest.
    • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, inTrains Illustrated, page593:
      It is to behoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page55:
      The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama ishoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
  2. (catenative) Tointend to do something andlook forward to the prospect of having done it[withto(+infinitive)].
    Ihope to succeed.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, inThe 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 hadhoped to have for his own.
  3. (intransitive) Toexpectoptimistically that one mightget something(either a change in circumstance or an object)[withfor].
    They'rehoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.
    I'mhoping for my boss to offer me apay raise.
  4. (intransitive) To placeconfidence; totrust with confident expectation of good[within].
  5. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) Towish.
    Ihope you all the best.
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofhope
infinitive(to)hope
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularhopehoped
2nd-personsingularhope,hopest†hoped,hopedst†
3rd-personsingularhopes,hopeth†hoped
pluralhope
subjunctivehopehoped
imperativehope—
participleshopinghoped
Derived terms
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Translations
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to want something to happen, with expectation that it might
See also
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishhope, fromOld Englishhopa(“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verbhope.

Eclipsed non-native early modernEnglishesperance, borrowed fromMiddle Frenchesperance.

Noun

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hope (countable anduncountable,pluralhopes)

  1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling oftrust,confidence,belief orexpectation that something wished for can or will happen.
    Allhopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
    After losing my job, there's frailhope of affording my world cruise.
    There is stillhope that we can find our missing cat.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Myhopes 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 onehope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
  4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuousdesire for future good.
Derived terms
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Related terms
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Translations
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belief that something wished for can happen
person or thing that is a source of hope
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Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishhope(“a valley”), fromOld Englishhōp (found only in placenames). More athoop.

Noun

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hope (pluralhopes)

  1. (Should wemove, merge or split(+) this sense?)(Northern England, Scotland) Ahollow; avalley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; acombe.

Etymology 4

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FromIcelandichóp(“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate withEnglishhoop.

Noun

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hope (pluralhopes)

  1. (Should wemove, merge or split(+) this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.[1]
  2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.[2]

References

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  1. ^“hope”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
  2. ^“hope”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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hope

  1. (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctive ofhopen

Hawaiian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Eastern Polynesian*sope(“buttocks, rear end”). Cognate withMāorihope(“waist”),Tahitianhope(“finished”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hope

  1. back,rear,(of a vessel)aft
  2. subsequent,next
  3. younger
  4. last
  5. residue
  6. fate

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Māori

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Etymology

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FromProto-Eastern Polynesian*sope(“buttocks, rear end”). Cognate withHawaiianhope(“behind”),Tahitianhope(“finished”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hope

  1. waist
  2. hip (ringahope)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “hope” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishhopa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hope (pluralhopes)

  1. trust,confidence; wishfuldesire;expectation

Descendants

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References

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Shona

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Etymology

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From the root ofCommon Bantu*dʊ̀kópè, whence alsochikope(“eyelid”).

Noun

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hópé class10

  1. sleep

Spanish

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Verb

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hope

  1. only used inmehope,first-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofhoparse
  2. only used insehope,third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofhoparse
  3. only used inse ...hope,syntactic variant ofhópese,third-personsingularimperative ofhoparse

West Frisian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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hope n (no plural)

  1. alternative form ofhoop
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