hope
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hope/həʊp/
▶noun
- 1 a feeling of expectation and desire.
■ a cause or source of hope.
■ grounds for hoping.
- 2 archaic a feeling of trust.
- 1 expect and desire: he's hoping for an offer of compensation.
- 2 intend if possible to do something.
– phrases
hope against hope cling to a mere possibility.
not a (or Brit. some) hope informal no chance at all.
hope against hope cling to a mere possibility.
not a (or Brit. some) hope informal no chance at all.
– derivatives
hoper noun.
hoper noun.
– origin OE hopa (n.), hopian (v.), of Gmc origin.
'hope' also found in these Oxford entries:
absit omen
- aspiration
- bang
- beg
- best
- cape
- Cape Dutch
- carpet
- chance
- cherish
- confound
- creep
- cross
- cryonics
- cybersquatting
- demoralize
- despair
- desperate
- despondent
- devout
- die
- dispirit
- dream
- encourage
- entrepreneur
- Esperanto
- expectancy
- faint
- flame
- fond
- fool's errand
- forlorn
- gamble
- glimmer
- groupie
- happy
- hell
- hope chest
- hopeful
- jolly
- last
- look
- lost cause
- may
- messianic
- mirage
- nurture
- Pandora's box
- pessimism
