Hope Definition
- expect
- desire
- trust
- go for
- be reassured
- look on the sunny side
- look on the bright side
- catch at a straw
- knock-on-wood
- dream
- wish
- take-heart
- be sure of
- feel confident
- be confident
An English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived in a hop, a small enclosed valley.
A town in Arkansas.
- To hope with little reason or justification.
- to continue having hope though it seems baseless
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Origin of Hope
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From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from Proto-Germanic *hupǭ, *hupō (“hope”), from Proto-Germanic *hupōną (“to hope”), from Proto-Indo-European *kēwp-, *kwēp- (“to smoke, boil”). Cognate with West Frisian hope (“hope”), Dutch hoop (“hope”), Middle High German hoffe (“hope”), German hoffen (“hope”), Swedish hopp (“hope”). Extra-Germanic cognates include Latin cupio (“I desire, crave”), Albanian ngop (“I'm satisfied, sated”) and gopë (“greedy, voracious”).
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Middle English hopen from Old English hopian
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian.
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Compare Icelandic word for a small bay or inlet.
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