ALL meanings of hope
hope
H h - transitive verb hope desire 1
- transitive verb hope expect 1
- noun hope expectation 1
- noun hope sb, sth you rely on 1
- intransitive verb hope feel sth may occur 1
- noun hope A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. 1
- noun Technical meaning of hope (language) A functional programming language designed by R.M. Burstall, D.B. MacQueen and D.T. Sanella at University of Edinburgh in 1978. It is a large language supporting user-defined prefix, infix or distfix operators. Hope has polymorphic typing and allows overloading of operators which requires explicit type declarations. Hope has lazy lists and was the first language to use call-by-pattern. It has been ported to Unix, Macintosh, and IBM PC. See also Hope+, Hope+C, Massey Hope, Concurrent Massey Hope. 1
- noun hope Anthony, pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. 1
- noun hope Bob (Leslie Townes Hope) 1903–2003, U.S. comedian, born in England. 1
- noun hope John, 1868–1936, U.S. educator. 1
- noun hope a town in SW Arkansas. 1
- verb with object hope to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence. 1
- verb with object hope to believe, desire, or trust: I hope that my work will be satisfactory. 1
- verb without object hope to feel that something desired may happen: We hope for an early spring. 1
- verb without object hope Archaic. to place trust; rely (usually followed by in). 1
- idioms hope hope against hope, to continue to hope, although the outlook does not warrant it: We are hoping against hope for a change in her condition. 1
- noun hope a female given name. 0
- verb hope If you hope that something is true, or if you hope for something, you want it to be true or to happen, and you usually believe that it is possible or likely. 0
- verb hope If you say that you cannot hope for something, or if you talk about the only thing that you can hope to get, you mean that you are in a bad situation, and there is very little chance of improving it. 0
- verb hope Hope is also a noun. 0
- uncountable noun hope Hope is a feeling of desire and expectation that things will go well in the future. 0
- countable noun hope If someone wants something to happen, and considers it likely or possible, you can refer to their hopes of that thing, or to their hope that it will happen. 0
- countable noun hope If you think that the help or success of a particular person or thing will cause you to be successful or to get what you want, you can refer to them as your hope. 0
- noun hope a feeling of desire for something and confidence in the possibility of its fulfilment 0
- noun hope a reasonable ground for this feeling 0
- noun hope a person or thing that gives cause for hope 0
- noun hope a thing, situation, or event that is desired 0
- verb hope to desire (something) with some possibility of fulfilment 0
- verb hope to have a wish (for a future event, situation, etc) 0
- verb hope to trust, expect, or believe 0
- noun hope Anthony, real name Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. 1863–1933, English novelist; author of The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) 0
- noun hope Bob, real name Leslie Townes Hope. 1903–2003, US comedian and comic actor, born in England. His films include The Cat and the Canary (1939), Road to Morocco (1942), and The Paleface (1947). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 1998 0
- noun hope David (Michael). Baron. born 1940, British churchman, Archbishop of York (1995–2005) 0
- noun hope a feminine name 0
- noun hope Anthony(pseud. of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) 1863-1933; Eng. novelist 0
- noun hope a feeling that what is wanted is likely to happen; desire accompanied by expectation 0
- noun hope the thing that one has a hope for 0
- noun hope a reason for hope 0
- noun hope a person or thing on which one may base some hope 0
- noun hope trust; reliance 0
- verb transitive hope to have hope; want and expect 0
- verb transitive hope to want very much 0
- intransitive verb hope to have hope (for) 0
- intransitive verb hope to trust or rely 0
- noun hope (Uncountable Noun) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. 0
- noun hope (Countable Noun) The actual thing wished for. 0
- noun hope (Countable Noun) A person or thing that is a source of hope. 0
- noun hope (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good. 0
- noun hope (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 comb. 0
- noun hope A sloping plain between mountain ridges. 0