hope¹ /hōp/

1. To cherish a desire (that something good will happen), with some expectation of success or fulfilment
2. To have confidence
3. To be hopeful

1. To desire, with belief in the possibility of fulfilment
2. To expect, fear (obsolete)

1. A desire for something good, with a certain expectation of obtaining it
2. Confidence
3. Anticipation
4. That on which hopes are grounded
5. An embodiment of hope
6. The event, object, etc that is hoped for

hopeˈful adjective

1. Full of hope
2. Having qualities that excite hope
3. Promising good or success

1. A promising young person
2. A (usu young) person of ambition

hopeˈfully adverb

1. In a hopeful manner
2. If all goes well (informal)

hopeˈfulness noun

hopeˈless adjective

1. Without hope
2. Giving no reason to expect good or success
3. Incompetent
4. Incurable
5. Unhoped-for (Spenser)

hopeˈlessly adverb

hopeˈlessness noun

hōpˈer noun

hōpˈingly adverb (archaic)

hope chest noun (N American)

A place, often a trunk or chest, for things stored by a woman for her marriage, a bottom drawer

hope against hope

To continue to hope when there is no (longer any) reason for hope

it is hoped (informal)

If all goes well

noˈ-hopˈer (informal)

1. A racehorse that is not good enough to have a chance of winning
2. Any person or thing that has absolutely no chance of success (noˈ-hopeˈ adjective)

some hope, what a hope or not a hope (ironic)

That will never happen

• make ends meet
• make eyes at
• make faces at
• make fair weather
• make first base
• make fish of one and flesh of another
• make fish of one and fowl of another
• make for
• make foul water
• make free with
• make friends
• make fun of
• make game of
• make good
• make good time
• make good weather of it
• make great play
• make great strides
• make haste
• make hay
• make hay while the sun shines
• make head
• make heavy weather of
• make history
• make inroads into