hope

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American Heritage Dictionary (10 definitions)

    –verb-intransitive
  1. To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
  2. Archaic To have confidence; trust.
  3. –verb-transitive
  4. To look forward to with confidence or expectation: We hope that our children will be successful.
  5. To expect and desire. See Synonyms at expect.
  6. –noun
  7. A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
  8. Something that is hoped for or desired: Success is our hope.
  9. One that is a source of or reason for hope: the team's only hope for victory.
  10. Christianity The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.
  11. Archaic Trust; confidence.
  12. –idiom
  13. hope against hope To hope with little reason or justification.

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/(hōp)/
ahd pronounces "hope"
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  1. Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian.
 

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