| hope |  |  | 
| n. (feeling) | 1. hope | a specific instance of feeling hopeful.; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant" | 
 |  ~ anticipation, expectancy | an expectation. | 
| n. (feeling) | 2. hope | the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" | 
 |  ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" | 
 |  ~ hopefulness | the feeling you have when you have hope. | 
 |  ~ encouragement | the feeling of being encouraged. | 
 |  ~ optimism | the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well. | 
| n. (cognition) | 3. hope, promise | grounds for feeling hopeful about the future.; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" | 
 |  ~ expectation, outlook, prospect | belief about (or mental picture of) the future. | 
 |  ~ rainbow | an illusory hope.; "chasing rainbows" | 
| n. (person) | 4. hope | someone (or something) on which expectations are centered.; "he was their best hope for a victory" | 
 |  ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" | 
 |  ~ great white hope, white hope | someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field.; "this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy" | 
| n. (person) | 5. bob hope, hope, leslie townes hope | United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003). | 
 |  ~ comedian, comic | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts. | 
| n. (attribute) | 6. hope | one of the three Christian virtues. | 
 |  ~ supernatural virtue, theological virtue | according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues. | 
| v. (emotion) | 7. desire, hope, trust | expect and wish.; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" | 
 |  ~ wish | hope for; have a wish.; "I wish I could go home now" | 
| v. (emotion) | 8. hope | be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well" | 
 |  ~ desire, want | feel or have a desire for; want strongly.; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" | 
| v. (cognition) | 9. go for, hope | intend with some possibility of fulfilment.; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening" | 
 |  ~ be after, plan | have the will and intention to carry out some action.; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" | 
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