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verb

• To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

  Example: I am still hoping that all will turn out well.

• To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

• To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.

• To wish.

  Example: I hope you all the best.

noun

• The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

  Example: After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.

• The actual thing wished for.

• A person or thing that is a source of hope.

  Example: We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.

• The virtuous desire for future good.

noun

• A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

noun

• A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

• A small bay; an inlet; a haven.