hope

hope meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of hope in a sentence

• — Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.
• I'm going to get a new car. I hope it will be better than the last one.
• I'd hoped I'd find a job, but I never did, so I was hoping you could lend me some cash.
• I hope {to - (that) I'll} have finished by next Sat at the latest.
• There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
• I would not call thee fool, old man. / But hope is not a gift of thine; / If I can hope (O God!1884 [1827], Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Richard Herne Shepherd, editor, Tamerlane and Other Poems, London: George Redway:

All 40 example sentences with hope

Forms of hope

Past tense of hope: hoped

Plural of hope: hopes

Origin of hope

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn; further etymology unclear. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian, West Frisian hoopje (“to hope”), Cimbrian hòffan (“to hope”), Dutch hopen (“to hope”), German, Luxembourgish hoffen (“to hope”), Vilamovian höfnan (“hope”), Yiddish האָפֿן (hofn, “to hope”), Danish håbe (“to hope”), Norwegian Bokmål håpe (“to hope”), Norwegian Nynorsk håpa, håpe (“to hope”), Swedish hoppas (“to hope”).

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope. Eclipsed non-native early modern English esperance, borrowed from Middle French esperance.

From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Words formed from hope

• Bob Hope
• hopane
• Hope Cay
• Hope Town
• Hope under Dinmore
• Hope Valley
• Hope Woodlands
• Port Hope
• Stanford-le-Hope
• behope
• mishope
• overhope
• can but hope
• cross my heart and hope to die
• here's hoping
• hit and hope
• hoped for
• hope for the best, prepare for the worst
• I hope I may be shot
• I hope she sees this
• I hope you're happy
• should hope
• would hope
• abandon hope, all ye who enter here
• all hope abandon ye who enter here
• beacon of hope
• Buckley's hope
• Cape of Good Hope
• dash someone's hopes
• get one's hopes up
• glimmer of hope
• great white hope
• hopeably
• hope against hope
• hope chess
• hope chest
• hopeful
• hopeium
• hopeless
• hopemonger
• hopenosis
• hopepunk
• hoper
• hope springs eternal
• hope springs eternal in the human breast
• Hopewell
• Hopey McChange
• hopium
• in the hope of
• in the hope that
• keep hope alive
• live in hope
• Mount Hope
• no-hoper
• prisoner of hope
• ray of hope
• underhope
• unhope
• wanhope
• white hope

Related words

• aspire
• desire
• expect
• look forward
• want
• forlorn hope

Phrases with hope

• New Hope
• Good Hope
• hope chests
• rays of hope
• lived in hope
• lives in hope
• could but hope
• living in hope
• Mount Hope Bay
• beacons of hope
• glimmers of hope
• Port Hope Simpson

Words that rhyme with hope

• rope
• pope
• dope
• trope
• slope
• scope
• cope
• elope
• grope
• soap
• aslope
• forlorn hope

Questions about hope

What does hope mean?

Hope means to want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].

What is hope in Hindi?

Hope in Hindi is आशा (āśā), आशा करना (āśā karnā), उम्मीद करना (ummīd karnā). See Hope meaning in Hindi.

How do you use hope in a sentence?

— Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.

What part of speech is hope?

Hope can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce hope?

Hope is pronounced /ˈhəʊp/ (UK).

What is the past tense of hope?

The past tense of hope is hoped.