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WHITE HOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white hope mean? 

WHITE HOPE (noun)
  The noun WHITE HOPE has 1 sense:

1. someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given fieldplay

  Familiarity information: WHITE HOPE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WHITE HOPE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

great white hope; white hope

Context example:

this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy

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

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


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