hope
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Is hope a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of hope?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (catenative) To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].Examples: "I hope to succeed."; "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."catenative
2. (intransitive) To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].Examples: "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."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].Examples: "I hope in thy word."; "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God."intransitive
4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.Examples: "I hope you all the best."dialectalnonstandardtransitive
noun (English)
1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.Examples: "All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack."; "After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise."; "There is still hope that we can find our missing cat."countableuncountable
2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.countable
3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.Examples: "We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table."countable
4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.Examples: "But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love."uncountable
noun (English)
1. (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.Northern-EnglandScotland
noun (English)
1. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.Examples: "Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope."; "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)."Scotland
name (English)
1. (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.rareuncountableusually
Definition source: Wiktionary