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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



... so cruel and coarse, Philip, so unworthy of your real self?" She spoke despairingly, not able wholly to believe that the old self was the true self, yet clinging, woman-like, to the hope that she ...
— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

... all in a measure feel its good effects. Even the avowed infidel living in our midst is far more under its influences, though indirectly so, than he is aware of. And where there is life, there we have hope of growth, of higher development. To cherish that growth, to further that higher development by all gracious and loving and generous influences, is a work for which women are especially adapted. They work from within outwardly. Men work ...
— Female Suffrage • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... corrupt our nation with." "I am heartily sorry," cries Allworthy. "Pox o' your sorrow," says Western; "it will do me abundance of good when I have lost my only child, my poor Sophy, that was the joy of my heart, and all the hope and comfort of my age; but I am resolved I will turn her out o' doors; she shall beg, and starve, and rot in the streets. Not one hapeny, not a hapeny shall she ever hae o' mine. The son of a bitch was always good at ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

... from Versailles * * * It only remains for us to choose our colours. Quelle couleur voulez vous? Green, the colour of hope; or the blue of Cincinnati, the colour of American liberty ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... you a list; not bad names either; the elite, if I am correctly informed; they will rather surprise you. Aeschines the Socratic, now, author of dialogues as witty as they are long, brought them with him to Sicily in the hope that they would gain him the royal notice of Dionysius; having given a reading of the Miltiades, and found himself famous, he settled down in Sicily to sponge on Dionysius and forget ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata


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