hope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hōp
ipa: /həʊp/
ipa: /hoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: hopes
form: hoping
form: hoped
form: hoped
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: hope
form: hope
form: hoped
form: hope
form: hopest
form: hoped
form: hopedst
form: hopes
form: hopeth
form: hoped
form: hope
form: hoped
form: hope
form: hoped
form: hope
form: -
form: hoping
form: hoped
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.
text: He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.
text: — Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.
text: I'm going to get a new car. I hope it will be better than the last one.
text: I'd hoped I'd find a job, but I never did, so I was hoping you could lend me some cash.
text: I hope {to - (that) I'll} have finished by next Sat at the latest.
text: It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
text: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
info_templates: extra_data: words: that
(+
clause);
(informal)
with
clause;
(negative)
not
expansion: [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not]
glosses: 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].
examples: text: I hope to succeed.
text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
(+
infinitive)
expansion: [with to (+ infinitive)]
glosses: To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
examples: text: They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.
text: I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise.
info_templates: extra_data: words: for
expansion: [with for]
glosses: To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
examples: text: I hope in thy word.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:81:
text: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms xlii:11:
info_templates: extra_data: words: in
expansion: [with in]
glosses: To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
examples: text: I hope you all the best.
glosses: To wish.
Derived terms: behope
can but hope
cross my heart and hope to die
here's hoping
hit and hope
hoped for
hope for the best, prepare for the worst
I hope I may be shot
I hope you're happy
mihope
mishope
overhope
should hope
would hope
Related terms: aspire
desire
expect
look forward
want