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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English hopen , from Old English hopian ( “ hope ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn , further etymology unclear.
Verb
hope (third-person singular simple present hopes , present participle hoping , simple past and past participle hoped )
( intransitive , transitive ) To want something to happen , with a sense of expectation that it might .
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
I am still hoping that all will turn out well.
1918 , W B Maxwell , chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC :He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated , page 593 :It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting ”, in The Economist , volume 407 , number 8839 , page 55 :The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
( intransitive ) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in .
( transitive , dialectal , nonstandard ) To wish .
I hope you all the best.
Usage notes
Antonyms
( antonym(s) of “ to want something to happen, with the expectation it might ” ) : wish
Derived terms
Translations
to want something to happen, with expectation that it might
Afrikaans: hoop (af)
Albanian: shpreson
Arabic: أَمَلَ ( ʔamala ) , رَجَا ( rajā ) , تَأَمَّلَ ( taʔammala )
Egyptian Arabic: اتمنى ( atmanā )
Hijazi Arabic: اتمنى ( atmanna ) , امَّل ( ammal )
South Levantine Arabic: تأمّل ( tʔammal ) , تمنّى ( tmanna )
Armenian: հուսալ (hy) ( husal )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܒ݂ܹܪ ( sawer )
Asturian: esperar
Azerbaijani: ümid etmək , ummaq
Belarusian: спадзява́цца impf ( spadzjavácca ) , паспадзява́цца pf ( paspadzjavácca )
Bengali: আশা করা ( aśa kora )
Biatah Bidayuh: harap
Breton: esperi (br)
Bulgarian: надя́вам се impf ( nadjávam se )
Burmese: ရည် (my) ( rany ) , မျှော် (my) ( hmyau ) , ထင်စား (my) ( htangca: ) , မျှော်လင့် (my) ( hmyaulang. )
Catalan: esperar (ca) , desitjar (ca)
Cebuano: laom
Chinese:
Cantonese: 希望 ( hei1 mong6 )
Dungan: зывон ( zɨvon ) , панвон ( panvon )
Eastern Min: 希望 ( hi-bāng )
Hakka: 希望 ( hî-mong )
Hokkien: 希望 (zh-min-nan) ( hi-bāng )
Mandarin: 希望 (zh) ( xīwàng ) , 盼望 (zh) ( pànwàng ) , 指望 (zh) ( zhǐwàng )
Wu: 希望 ( 1 shi-maon)
Czech: doufat (cs) impf
Danish: håbe (da)
Dutch: hopen (nl)
Elfdalian: oppas , uppas
Esperanto: esperi (eo)
Estonian: lootma
Faroese: vóna , hopa
Finnish: toivoa (fi)
French: espérer (fr)
Friulian: sperâ
Galician: esperar (gl)
Georgian: იმედოვნება ( imedovneba )
German: hoffen (de)
Gothic: 𐍅𐌴𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 ( wēnjan )
Greek: ελπίζω (el) ( elpízo )
Ancient Greek: ἐλπίζω ( elpízō )
Hebrew: קיווה \ קִוָּה ( kivá )
Hiligaynon: laum
Hindi: आशा करना ( āśā karnā ) , उम्मीद करना ( ummīd karnā )
Hungarian: remél (hu) , reménykedik (hu)
Icelandic: vona (is) , gera sér vonir um
Ido: esperar (io)
Indonesian: harap (id) , berharap (id)
Ingrian: toivoa , sallia
Interlingua: sperar
Irish: bí ag súil , bí i ndóchas
Italian: sperare (it)
Japanese: 希望する (ja) ( きぼうする, kibō suru ) , 望む (ja) ( のぞむ, nozomu )
Kazakh: дәмелену ( dämelenu ) , сену ( senu ) , үміттену ( ümıttenu )
Khmer: សង្ឃឹម (km) ( sɑngkhɨm )
Korean: 바라다 (ko) ( barada ) , 희망하다 (ko) ( huimanghada ) , 원하다 (ko) ( wonhada )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hêvî kirin (ku) , hêvîdar bûn (ku)
Kyrgyz: үмүт кылуу (ky) ( ümüt kıluu ) , ишенүү (ky) ( işenüü ) , эш кылуу ( eş kıluu )
Lao: ຫວັງ ( wang ) , ຄາດຫວັງ ( khāt wang )
Latin: spērō (la)
Latvian: cerēt
Lithuanian: trokšti , viltis (lt) , tikėtis (lt)
Low German:
German Low German: hapen
Luxembourgish: hoffen
Macedonian: се надева impf ( se nadeva )
Malay: harap (ms) , berharap
Maltese: ttama , spera
Mirandese: sperar
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: найдах (mn) ( najdax )
Norman: espéther
Norwegian:
Bokmål: håpe (no)
Nynorsk: håpa
Occitan: esperar (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: оупъвати impf ( upŭvati )
Old Dutch: hopon , hopan
Old English: hopian
Old Frisian: hopia
Old Saxon: hopon
Persian: امیدوار بودن (fa) ( omidvâr budan )
Polish: mieć nadzieję (pl) impf , spodziewać się (pl) impf
Portuguese: esperar (pt)
Romanian: spera (ro) , nădăjdui (ro)
Romansch: sperar , sperer
Russian: наде́яться (ru) impf ( nadéjatʹsja ) , упова́ть (ru) impf ( upovátʹ )
Sardinian: isperai , isperare , sperai
Scottish Gaelic: dòchas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на́дати се impf , у̀фати се impf
Roman: nádati se (sh) impf , ùfati se (sh) impf
Sinhalese: බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා ( balāporottu wenawā )
Slovak: dúfať impf
Slovene: upati (sl) impf
Southern Altai: иженер ( ižener )
Spanish: esperar (es) , esperanzarse (es) , ojalá (es) ( adverb ) , aguardar (es) , desear (es) , amalaya (es) ( adverb ) , ahuciarse
Sranan Tongo: howpu
Swahili: tumaini (sw)
Swedish: hoppas (sv)
Tabasaran: умуд ( umud )
Tagalog: umasa , asahan (tl) , sana
Tajik: умедвор будан ( umedvor budan ) , умед доштан ( umed doštan )
Tatar: өмет итәргә ( ömet itärgä )
Telugu: ఆశించు (te) ( āśiñcu )
Thai: หวัง (th) ( wǎng ) , คาดหวัง ( kâat-wǎng )
Turkish: ummak (tr) , umut etmek (tr) , ümit etmek (tr)
Turkmen: umyt etmek , tama etmek
Ukrainian: наді́ятися impf ( nadíjatysja ) , сподіва́тися impf ( spodivátysja ) , упова́ти impf ( upováty )
Urdu: اُمِّید کَرْنا ( ummīd karnā )
Uyghur: ئۈمىد قىلماق ( ümid qilmaq )
Uzbek: umid qilmoq (uz)
Vietnamese: hy vọng (vi) (希望 ), mong (vi)
Welsh: gobeithio (cy)
West Frisian: hoopje
Yiddish: האָפֿן ( hofn )
Zazaki: omıd kerden
Zhuang: hihvang , maqmuengh , muengh
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English hope , from Old English hopa ( “ hope, expectation ” ) , from the same source as the verb hope .
Noun
hope (countable and uncountable , plural hopes )
( countable or uncountable ) The feeling of trust , confidence , belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
1913 , Joseph C Lincoln , chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London: D Appleton and Company , →OCLC :My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
( countable ) The actual thing wished for.
( countable ) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
( Christianity , uncountable ) The virtuous desire for future good.
Derived terms
Translations
belief that something wished for can happen
Afrikaans: hoop (af)
Albanian: shpresë (sq) f
Amharic: ተስፋ ( täsfa )
Arabic: أَمَل m ( ʔamal ) , رَجَاء (ar) m ( rajāʔ )
Egyptian Arabic: امل m ( amal )
Aragonese: asperanza f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ m ( sāwra ) , ܗܹܒ݂ܝܼ m ( hēwī )
Classical Syriac: ܣܒܪܐ m
Armenian: հույս (hy) ( huys )
Assamese: হেঁপাহ ( hẽpah ) , আশা ( axa )
Asturian: esperanza f
Azerbaijani: ümid (az)
Baluchi: امیت
Bashkir: өмөт ( ömöt ) , ышаныс ( ışanıs )
Basque: itxaropen (eu) , esperantza
Belarusian: надзе́я f ( nadzjéja ) , надзёжа f ( nadzjóža ) ( colloquial )
Bengali: আশা (bn) ( aśa ) , উমেদ (bn) ( umed )
Breton: esper (br) f
Bulgarian: наде́жда (bg) f ( nadéžda )
Burmese: မျှော်လင့်ချက် (my) ( hmyaulang.hkyak )
Catalan: esperança (ca) f
Cebuano: paglaom
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 希望 ( hei1 mong6 ) , 指望 ( zi2 mong6 ) , 盼望 ( paan3 mong6 )
Mandarin: 希望 (zh) ( xīwàng ) , 指望 (zh) ( zhǐwàng ) , 盼望 (zh) ( pànwàng )
Cornish: govenek m
Corsican: sperenza
Czech: naděje (cs) f
Danish: håb (da) n
Dolgan: эрэбил ( erebil )
Dutch: hoop (nl) m or f
Elfdalian: up n
Esperanto: espero (eo)
Estonian: lootus
Ewe: mɔkpɔkpɔ
Faroese: vón f
Finnish: toivo (fi)
French: espoir (fr) m , espérance (fr) f
Friulian: sperance f
Galician: esperanza (gl) f
Georgian: იმედი ( imedi )
German: Hoffnung (de) f
Gothic: 𐍅𐌴𐌽𐍃 f ( wēns ) , 𐌻𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 f ( lubains )
Greek: ελπίδα (el) f ( elpída )
Ancient: ἐλπίς f ( elpís )
Greenlandic: neriugisaq , neriuut
Gujarati: આશા ( āśā )
Haitian Creole: lespwa
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: manaʻolana
Hebrew: תִּקְוָה (he) f ( tikvá ) , יְהָב (he) m ( yeháv )
Higaonon: paglaum
Hiligaynon: paglaum
Hindi: आशा (hi) f ( āśā ) , उम्मीद (hi) f ( ummīd )
Hungarian: remény (hu) , reménykedés (hu)
Icelandic: von (is) f
Ido: espero (io)
Indonesian: harapan (id)
Interlingua: sperantia
Irish: dóchas m , súil (ga) f , dúil f
Istriot: sparansa f
Italian: speranza (it) f
Japanese: 希望 (ja) ( きぼう, kibō ) , 期待 (ja) ( きたい, kitai )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: ಭರವಸೆ (kn) ( bharavase )
Karachay-Balkar: ышанч ( ışanç )
Kazakh: үміт ( ümıt ) , дәме ( däme )
Khmer: សង្ឃឹម (km) ( sɑngkhɨm )
Korean: 바람 (ko) ( baram ) , 희망(希望) (ko) ( huimang ) , 기대(期待) (ko) ( gidae )
Krymchak: акибат ( akibat )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئومێد (ckb) ( umêd ) , ھیوا (ckb) ( hîwa )
Northern Kurdish: hêvî (ku) , umêd (ku) , umîd (ku)
Kyrgyz: үмүт (ky) ( ümüt )
Lao: ຄວາມຫວັງ (lo) ( khuām wang )
Latgalian: nūceja
Latin: spēs f
Latvian: cerība f
Lezgi: умуд ( umud )
Lithuanian: viltis (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Hoffnung f
Macedonian: надеж f ( nadež )
Malay: harapan (ms) , asa (ms)
Malayalam: പ്രതീക്ഷ (ml) ( pratīkṣa )
Maltese: tama
Maore Comorian: tama class 9
Maori: awhero , tūmanako , manawa ora
Marathi: आशा (mr) ( āśā )
Mirandese: sperança
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: итгэл (mn) ( itgel ) , найдвар (mn) ( najdvar ) , горьдлого (mn) ( gorʹdlogo )
Navajo: sih , chohooʼį́ , hojoobaʼ
Nepali: आशा (ne) ( āśā )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: håp (no) n , forhåpning m or f
Nynorsk: håp n , forhåpning f
Occitan: esperança (oc) f
Odia: ଆଶା ( āśā )
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: надежда f ( nadežda ) , оупъваниѥ n ( upŭvanije )
Old East Slavic: надежа f ( nadeža )
Old English: tōhopa m
Old Norse: ván f
Old Occitan: sperança
Old Prussian: nadruwīsnā
Papiamentu: speransa
Pashto: اسره (ps) f ( asra ) , امته (ps) f ( amta ) , اومېن m ( umen ) , رجا (ps) f ( rejā ) , نمت m ( namat ) , هيله (ps) f ( hila ) , امېد m ( omed )
Persian:
Dari: اُمید ( umēd ) , اُمّید ( ummēd )
Iranian Persian: اُمید ( omid ) , اُمّید ( ommid )
Plautdietsch: Hopninj f
Polish: nadzieja (pl) f
Portuguese: esperança (pt) f
Punjabi: ਉਮੀਦ (pa) ( umīd ) , ਆਸ਼ਾ (pa) f ( āśā )
Romanian: speranță (ro) f , nădejde (ro) f
Romansch: speranza f , spraunza f , speronza f , sprànza f
Russian: наде́жда (ru) f ( nadéžda ) , надёжа (ru) f ( nadjóža ) ( low colloquial or folk poetic )
Sanskrit: आशा (sa) f ( āśā ) , आशंसा (sa) f ( āśaṃsā )
Sardinian: ispera f , isperiu
Scottish Gaelic: dòchas m , dùil f , sùil f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на́да f
Roman: náda (sh) f
Sinhalese: බලාපොරොත්තුව (si) ( balāporottuwa )
Slovak: nádej (sk) f
Slovene: upanje (sl) n
Somali: rajo
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: naźeja f
Southern Altai: ижениш ( iženiš )
Spanish: esperanza (es) f
Sranan Tongo: howpu
Swahili: matumaini (sw)
Swedish: hopp (sv) n
Tabasaran: умуд ( umud )
Tagalog: pag-asa
Tajik: умед (tg) ( umed )
Tamil: நம்பிக்கை (ta) ( nampikkai )
Tatar: өмет (tt) ( ömet )
Telugu: ఆశ (te) ( āśa )
Thai: ความหวัง (th) ( kwaam-wǎng )
Tibetan: རེ་བ ( re ba )
Tigrinya: ተስፋ ( täsfa )
Tocharian B: pärmaṅk
Turkish: umut (tr) , ümit (tr)
Turkmen: umyt
Tuvaluan: fakamoemoēga
Ukrainian: наді́я f ( nadíja )
Urdu: اُمِّید (ur) f ( ummīd ) , آشا (ur) f ( āśā )
Uyghur: ئۈمىد ( ümid )
Uzbek: umid (uz)
Venetan: speransa (vec) f
Vietnamese: hy vọng (vi) (希望 )
Volapük: spel (vo)
Walloon: èspèrance f , espwer (wa) m
Waray-Waray: dahum
Welsh: gobaith (cy) m
West Frisian: hope
Yiddish: האָפֿענונג f ( hofenung )
Zazaki: mınet , omıd c du
Zhuang: hihvang
Zulu: themba , ethemba
person or thing that is a source of hope
Albanian: shpresë (sq)
Arabic: أَمَل m ( ʔamal ) , رَجَاء (ar) m ( rajāʔ )
Armenian: հույս (hy) ( huys )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ m ( sāwra ) , ܗܹܒ݂ܝܼ m ( hēwī )
Azerbaijani: ümid (az) , umacaq
Belarusian: надзе́я f ( nadzjéja )
Bulgarian: наде́жда (bg) f ( nadéžda )
Catalan: esperança (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 願望 / 愿望 (zh) ( yuànwàng )
Czech: naděje (cs) f
Danish: håb (da) n
Dutch: hoop (nl) m or f
Esperanto: espero (eo)
Estonian: lootus
Ewe: mɔkpɔkpɔ
Faroese: vón f
Finnish: toivo (fi)
French: espoir (fr) m
German: Hoffnung (de) f
Greek: ελπίδα (el) f ( elpída )
Hebrew: תקווה (he) f ( tikvá )
Hungarian: remény (hu) , reménység (hu)
Icelandic: vona (is)
Ido: esperanto (io)
Indonesian: harapan (id)
Interlingua: sperantia
Italian: speranza (it) f
Japanese: 希望 (ja) ( きぼう, kibō ) , 願望 (ja) ( がんぼう, ganbō )
Khmer: សង្ឃឹម (km) ( sɑngkhɨm )
Korean: 바램 (ko) ( baraem ) , 희망(希望) (ko) ( huimang )
Latin: spēs f
Latvian: cerība f
Lithuanian: viltis (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Hoffnung f
Macedonian: надеж f ( nadež )
Malay: harapan (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: håp (no) n
Nynorsk: håp n
Old English: tōhopa m
Polish: nadzieja (pl) f
Portuguese: esperança (pt) f
Romanian: speranță (ro) f , nădejde (ro) f
Russian: наде́жда (ru) f ( nadéžda )
Scottish Gaelic: dòchas m , dùil f , sùil f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нада f
Roman: nada (sh) f
Slovene: up (sl) m
Spanish: esperanza (es) f
Swahili: matumaini (sw)
Swedish: hopp (sv) n , förhoppning (sv) c
Tagalog: pag-asa , inaasahan
Turkish: umut (tr) , ümit (tr)
Ukrainian: наді́я f ( nadíja )
Vietnamese: nguồn hy vọng
Translations to be checked
Etymology 3
From Middle English hope ( “ a valley ” ) , from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop .
Noun
hope (plural hopes )
( Should we move, merge or split (+ ) this sense?) ( 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 .
Etymology 4
From Icelandic hóp ( “ a small bay or inlet ” ) . Cognate with English hoop .
Noun
hope (plural hopes )
( Should we move, merge or split (+ ) this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
( Scotland ) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
1587 , Abraham Fleming , Holinshed's Chronicles :Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope .
1819 , Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott ], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV) , Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co. ] for Archibald Constable and Co. ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown , ; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC :A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea [ …] It was called Wolf's Hope (i.e. Wolf's Haven).
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
hope
( dated or formal ) singular present subjunctive of hopen
Maori
Noun
hope
waist
hip (ringa hope )
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English hopa .
Pronunciation
Noun
hope (plural hopes )
trust , confidence ; wishful desire ; expectation
Descendants
References
Shona
Etymology
From the root of Common Bantu *dʊ̀kópè , whence also chikope ( “ eyelid ” ) .
Noun
hópé class 10
sleep
Spanish
Verb
hope
only used in me hope , first-person singular present subjunctive of hoparse
only used in se hope , third-person singular present subjunctive of hoparse
only used in se ... hope , syntactic variant of hópese , third-person singular imperative of hoparse
West Frisian
Pronunciation
Noun
hope n (no plural )
Alternative form of hoop