Definition of "hope"

hope¹

/həʊp/

verb
third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped
1. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  Quotations
  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
  It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
  1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
  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.
  2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
  Quotations
  I hope in thy word.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms cxix:81
  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, […], Psalms xlii:11
4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

hope²

/həʊp/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural hopes
1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  Quotations
  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. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
  Quotations
  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, […], 1 Corinthians 13:13

hope³

/həʊp/

noun
plural hopes
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.

hope⁴

/həʊp/

noun
plural hopes
1. (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
  Quotations
  Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope.
  1587, Abraham Fleming, Holinshed's Chronicles
  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, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volumes (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. […]

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