Usually means: Desire for a positive outcome.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word hope:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hope, hope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hope, hope: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hope, hope, hOpe: Wordnik
  7. hope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hope, hope: Wiktionary
  9. hope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hope: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. HOPE: Dictionary.com
  13. hope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hope: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Hope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hope: Rhymezone
  19. hope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hope: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hope: Free Dictionary
  23. Hope: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hope: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hope: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. H.O.P.E, hope: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hope: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. Hope: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. Hope: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  4. Hope: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hope: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
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  4. hope: Idioms
  5. HOPE: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hope: Easton Bible
  2. Hope: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hope: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
verb:  To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
verb:  (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
verb:  (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
noun:  (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, 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:  (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
noun:  (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:  A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
noun:  (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
noun:  A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
noun:  An English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hope, a small enclosed valley.
noun:  (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A place name, including:
noun:  A place in Canada:
noun:  A town and district municipality in British Columbia.
noun:  A community in the city of Vaughan, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario.
noun:  A township municipality in Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
noun:  A settlement near Richmond, Tasman district, New Zealand.
noun:  A village in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1783).
noun:  A village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3058).
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
noun:  An unincorporated community in La Paz County, Arizona.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Hempstead County, Arkansas.
noun:  A minor city in Bonner County, Idaho.
noun:  A township in LaSalle County, Illinois
noun:  An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois.
noun:  A town in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana.
noun:  A township and minor city therein, in Dickinson County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
noun:  A town in Knox County, Maine.
noun:  A township in Barry County, Michigan.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Midland County, Michigan.
noun:  A township in Lincoln County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri.
noun:  A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
noun:  A village in Eddy County, New Mexico.
noun:  A town in Hamilton County, New York.
noun:  A minor city in Steele County, North Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio.
noun:  A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island.
noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Cottage Grove and city of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

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