hope
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: hope
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: hope
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: hope
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: hopest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: hopedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: hopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hopeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: hope
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: hope
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: hope
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: hoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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].
pos: verb
examples: They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.
He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.
— Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.
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.
It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
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.
gloss: To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
pos: verb
tags: catenative
examples: I hope to succeed.
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.
gloss: To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
gloss: To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
gloss: To wish.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
nonstandard
transitive
examples: I hope you all the best.
gloss: The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
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.
gloss: The actual thing wished for.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A person or thing that is a source of hope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
gloss: The virtuous desire for future good.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Related words: aspire
desire
expect
look forward
want
forlorn hope
Derived words: behope
mishope
overhope
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
should hope
would hope
abandon hope, all ye who enter here
all hope abandon ye who enter here
beacon of hope
Buckley's hope
Cape of Good Hope
dash someone's hopes
get one's hopes up
glimmer of hope
great white hope
hopeably
hope against hope
hope chess
hope chest
hopeful
hopeium
hopeless
hopemonger
hopenosis
hopepunk
hoper
hope springs eternal
hope springs eternal in the human breast
Hope Town
Hope Valley
Hopewell
Hopey McChange
hopium
in the hope of
in the hope that
keep hope alive
live in hope
Mount Hope
no-hoper
prisoner of hope
ray of hope
underhope
unhope
wanhope
white hope
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