Etimology
From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear.
verb
hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)
(intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
(transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
Examples
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
I am still hoping that all will turn out well.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
I hope in thy word.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
I hope you all the best.
Related words
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "to want something to happen, with the expectation it might"): wish
Etimology
From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope.
noun
hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)
(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
(countable) The actual thing wished for.
(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
(Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
Examples
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Related words
related terms
forlorn hope
Etimology
From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop.
noun
hope (plural hopes)
(Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
Etimology
From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.
noun
hope (plural hopes)
(Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
Examples
Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope.
A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea […] It was called Wolf's Hope .