hopes

Noun (1)

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

1. The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
   • All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
3. (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.
4. (uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
   • But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:13

Noun (2)

hope (plural hopes)

1. (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.

Noun (3)

hope (plural hopes)

1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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