hopes
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See also: Hopes
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊps/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊps/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊps
Noun
hopes
Verb
hopes
- third-person singular simple present indicative of hope
Anagrams
Verb
hopes
- only used in te hopes, second-person singular present subjunctive of hoparse
Etymology
From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa.
Pronunciation
Noun
hopes
- hopes
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 9-10:
- Wi Irishmen owre generale hopes be ee-bond——
- With Irishmen our common hopes are inseparably bound up——
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116
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