hope
pronunciation
How to pronounce hope in British English:
UK [həʊp]
How to pronounce hope in American English:
US [hoʊp]
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- Noun:
- a specific instance of feeling hopeful
- the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
- grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
- someone (or something) on which expectations are centered
- one of the three Christian virtues
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- Verb:
- expect and wish
- be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
- intend with some possibility of fulfilment
Word Origin
- hope
- hope: [OE] The origins of the word hope are obscure. It appears to have started life among the Low German dialects of northern Germany (whence English hope and Dutch hoop), and later spread to Scandinavia (giving Swedish hopp and Danish haab) and High German (modern German has the verb hoffen and the derived noun hoffnung ‘hope’). Where did the original Low German forms come from, though? A suggestion that has found some favour is that the word is related to hop, and that it started from the notion of ‘jumping to safety’. The theory goes that the ‘place of refuge’ thus reached gives one ‘hope’, but it has an air of desperation.
- hope (v.)
- Old English hopian "wish, expect, look forward (to something)," of unknown origin, a general North Sea Germanic word (cognates: Old Frisian hopia, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch hopen; Middle High German hoffen "to hope," borrowed from Low German). Some suggest a connection with hop (v.) on the notion of "leaping in expectation" [Klein]. Related: Hoped; hoping.
- hope (n.)
- Old English hopa, from hope (v.). Compare Old Frisian and Middle Dutch hope, Dutch hoop, all from their respective verbs.
Antonym
Example
- 1. There still may be hope for la muela .
- 2. Goldberg also offers some hope . "
- 3. Hope things are getting better . '
- 4. In u.s. involvement , hope for good jobs
- 5. Let 's hope it hope doesn 't crash .