An English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hop, a small enclosed valley.
A proper noun "hope" represents various place names including a town in british columbia, canada, a settlement in new zealand, a village in derbyshire, england, a village in flintshire, wales, and a city in arkansas, united states.
(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
(countable) The actual thing wished for.
(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
(Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
(Northern England, Scotland) (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
(Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
(intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.