hope | Lernwerd

Forms

1.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].
- He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.
- They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.
- I hope {to - (that) I'll} have finished by next Sat at the latest.
2.To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
- I hope to be going back again soon.
- I was hoping to find a pair of jeans, but I couldn't.
3.To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
- I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise.
- They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.
4.To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
- I would hope that my teachers were eager to work.
- I hope we didn't wake you.
- I hope he's all right.

1.The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
- All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
- After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.
2.The actual thing wished for.
3.The virtuous desire for future good.
- But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
4.A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.

Very common· #413

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn; further etymology unclear.

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