HOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hope mean? 

• HOPE (noun)
  The noun HOPE has 6 senses:

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

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)

6. one of the three Christian virtues

  Familiarity information: HOPE used as a noun is common.

• HOPE (verb)
  The verb HOPE has 3 senses:

1. expect and wish

2. be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

3. intend with some possibility of fulfilment

  Familiarity information: HOPE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specific instance of feeling hopeful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

it revived their hope of winning the pennant

Hypernyms ("hope" is a kind of...):

anticipation; expectancy (an expectation)

Derivation:

hope (be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes)

hope (expect and wish)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope

Hypernyms ("hope" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hope"):

hopefulness (the feeling you have when you have hope)

encouragement (the feeling of being encouraged)

optimism (the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well)

Antonym:

despair (the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well)

Derivation:

hope (be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes)

hope (expect and wish)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

hope; promise

Context example:

there is little or no promise that he will recover

Hypernyms ("hope" is a kind of...):

expectation; outlook; prospect (belief about (or mental picture of) the future)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hope"):

rainbow (an illusory hope)

Derivation:

hope (be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes)

hope (expect and wish)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he was their best hope for a victory

Hypernyms ("hope" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hope"):

great white hope; white hope (someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field)

Derivation:

hope (be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes)

hope (expect and wish)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bob Hope; Hope; Leslie Townes Hope

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

Sense 6

Meaning:

One of the three Christian virtues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("hope" is a kind of...):

supernatural virtue; theological virtue (according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues)

Derivation:

hope (expect and wish)

hope (be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes)

• HOPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hope    ... he / she / it hopes   
Past simple: hoped   
Past participle: hoped   
-ing form: hoping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expect and wish

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

desire; hope; trust

Context example:

I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise

Hypernyms (to "hope" is one way to...):

wish (hope for; have a wish)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They hope to move

Derivation:

hope (one of the three Christian virtues)

hope (grounds for feeling hopeful about the future)

hope (a specific instance of feeling hopeful)

hope (the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled)

hope (someone (or something) on which expectations are centered)

hoper (a person who hopes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

I am still hoping that all will turn out well

Hypernyms (to "hope" is one way to...):

desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Antonym:

despair (abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart)

Derivation:

hope (one of the three Christian virtues)

hope (grounds for feeling hopeful about the future)

hope (a specific instance of feeling hopeful)

hope (the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled)

hope (someone (or something) on which expectations are centered)

hoper (a person who hopes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Intend with some possibility of fulfilment

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

go for; hope

Context example:

I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening

Hypernyms (to "hope" is one way to...):

be after; plan (have the will and intention to carry out some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Derivation:

hoper (a person who hopes)

 Context examples 

Wait a bit, though! There’s the cab off again! There’s hope yet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As to the detail which remains to be worked out upon this plateau, it is so enormous that only a large expedition, with a very special equipment, could hope to cope with it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she saw who it was, she approached me and said, “Dear sir, you are very kind to visit me; you, I hope, do not believe that I am guilty?”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They could not hope to sell such a horse.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"I just wish I had a little of the money Laurie spends on that horse," she added, as if to herself, yet hoping her sisters would hear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Meantime the old king was lingering on in daily hope of his son’s return, till at last the second son said, “Father, I will go in search of the Water of Life.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Uranus is the planet of surprise and is currently in your eleventh house of hopes and wishes.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He was devoted to Henrietta; always turning towards her; and when he spoke at all, always with the view of supporting her hopes and raising her spirits.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And then by a return on his former subject, he conceived a spark of hope.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)