hope🔊

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might (:that(clause)/clause/:so).

To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it.

To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object).

To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good.

(dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

The actual thing wished for.

A person or thing that is a source of hope.

(Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.

(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.

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.