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Hope   /hoʊp/   Listen
Hope

verb
(past & past part. hoped; pres. part. hoping)
1.
Expect and wish.  Synonyms: desire, trust.  "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"
2.
Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
3.
Intend with some possibility of fulfilment.  Synonym: go for.
noun
1.
A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
2.
The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.
3.
Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future.  Synonym: promise.
4.
Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered.
5.
United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003).  Synonyms: Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope.
6.
One of the three Christian virtues.



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"Hope" Quotes from Famous Books



... are also making their way."[158] Would this report of religion in South Australia be "most satisfactory" to that apostle, who teaches that "there is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling?" ...
— Australia, its history and present condition • William Pridden

... What matters then that War On the horizon like a beacon burns, That Death ascends, man's most desired star, That Darkness is his hope? The Spring returns! Triumphant through the wider-arched cope She comes, she comes, unto her tyranny, And at her coronation are set ope The prisons of the mind, and man is free! The beggar-garbed or over-bent with snows, Each mortal, long defeated, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

... Hampton, is given as of the first family. But the mother of Ralph the justice was a De Bohun. I propose, therefore, tentatively, to consider that the first Ralph de Hampton married a De Bohun, and hope to find the records true of an eldest son Ralph, brother of Robert, the Archdeacon of Lisiaux, of Peter the clerk, and of Roger of Hampton. This view is supported by many facts, and it gives time. Ralph was at the height of his power in 1188, the very date at which ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes

... Pasmer—an effect so admirably disowned, so perfectly obvious. Before she could get to sleep she was obliged to make a compromise with her heart, in pursuance of which, when she found Mrs. Pasmer at breakfast alone in the morning, she went up to her, and said, holding her hand a moment, "I hope your daughter slept well ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... I know it by my own heart. When I think of all she suffered, of my own early sufferings, of the distresses and struggles of my heroic wife, of my sister, sold in the New Orleans slave-market,—though I hope to have no unchristian sentiments, yet I may be excused for saying, I have no wish to pass for an American, or to ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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