hope
/hoʊp/ noun A1- 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.· After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.
- The actual thing wished for.
- 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.
- The virtuous desire for future good.
Plural hopes
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“Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!” (Dinah was the cat.) “I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time.
I do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!”
She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself “That’s quite enough—I hope I shan’t grow any more—As it is, I can’t get out at the door—I do wish I hadn’t drunk quite so much!”
I hope she is stronger than she looks.
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