hope

present singular third person hopes · participle present hoping · participle past hoped · past hoped · first person past singular hoped · archaic present second person singular hopest · past second person singular hoped · archaic past second person singular hopedst · present singular third person hopes · archaic present singular third person hopeth · past singular third person hoped · past plural hoped · past subjunctive hoped · participle present hoping · participle past hoped

1. To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].

   — Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.

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   They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.

   He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.

   I'm going to get a new car. I hope it will be better than the last one.

   I'd hoped I'd find a job, but I never did, so I was hoping you could lend me some cash.

   I hope {to - (that) I'll} have finished by next Sat at the latest.

2. catenativeTo intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].

   I hope to succeed.

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   I hope to be going back again soon.

   I was hoping to find a pair of jeans, but I couldn't.

   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.

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

3. intransitiveTo expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].

   He's past hoping for any improvement.

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   They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.

   I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise.

4. intransitiveTo place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].

   I hope in thy word.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:81

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

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

5. dialectalnonstandardtransitiveTo wish.

   I hope you all the best.

plural hopes

1. countableuncountableThe feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

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

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   All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.

   After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.

   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.

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

2. countableThe actual thing wished for.
3. countableA 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. uncountableChristianityThe virtuous desire for future good.

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

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:13

plural hopes

1. Northern EnglandScotlandA hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.

plural hopes

1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. ScotlandA small bay; an inlet; a haven.

   Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope.

   1587, Abraham Fleming, Holinshed's Chronicles

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   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).

   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

plural Hopes

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

   Hope Hicks, one of the President’s longest-serving aides, warned Parscale against touting ticket request numbers, reminding him that the number one rule in politics is not to overpromise and underdeliver, a source familiar with the matter said.

   2020 July 13, Michael Warren, Jeremy Diamond, Ryan Nobles and Fredreka Schouten, “Amid rising coronavirus cases, the Trump campaign struggles to get its rally machine going”, in CNN

2. uncountableusuallyAn English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hope, a small enclosed valley.
3. rareuncountableusuallyA male given name transferred from the surname.
4. A place name, including:
   1. uncountableusuallyA town and district municipality in British Columbia.
   2. uncountableusuallyA community in the city of Vaughan, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario.
   3. uncountableusuallyA township municipality in Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
   4. uncountableusuallyA settlement near Richmond, Tasman district, New Zealand.
   5. uncountableusuallyA village and civil parish in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1783).
   6. uncountableusuallyA hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3401).
   7. uncountableusuallyA hamlet in Alstonefield parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1255).
   8. uncountableusuallyA village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3058).
   9. uncountableusuallyA census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
   10. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in La Paz County, Arizona.
   11. uncountableusuallyA city, the county seat of Hempstead County, Arkansas.
   12. uncountableusuallyA minor city in Bonner County, Idaho.
   13. uncountableusuallyA township in LaSalle County, Illinois.
   14. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois.
   15. uncountableusuallyA town in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana.
   16. uncountableusuallyA township and minor city therein, in Dickinson County, Kansas.
   17. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
   18. uncountableusuallyA town in Knox County, Maine.
   19. uncountableusuallyA township in Barry County, Michigan.
   20. uncountableusuallyA township and unincorporated community therein, in Midland County, Michigan.
   21. uncountableusuallyA township in Lincoln County, Minnesota.
   22. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri.
   23. uncountableusuallyA township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
   24. uncountableusuallyA village in Eddy County, New Mexico.
   25. uncountableusuallyA town in Hamilton County, New York.
   26. uncountableusuallyA minor city in Steele County, North Dakota.
   27. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio.
   28. uncountableusuallyA neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island.
   29. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in the town of Cottage Grove and city of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.
   30. uncountableusuallyA settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.