Hope
- Proper noun. (given name, female) from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
- Proper noun. (surname, A An) for someone who lived in a ''hop'', a small enclosed valley.
- Proper noun. A town in Arkansas.
- Proper noun. A town in British Columbia.
- Noun. (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- Noun. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- Noun. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- Noun. (''in Christianity'') The virtuous desire for future good.
- Verb. to want something to happen.
- Verb. to be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
- Verb. to expect and wish.
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