Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HOPE

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Definitions of HOPE

1. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
2. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
3. A place name, including:
4. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
5. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
6. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
7. (countableoruncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
8. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
9. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
10. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
11. (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.
12. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
13. A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
14. A English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hop, a small enclosed valley.
15. (rare) A male given name from surnames.

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