希望 — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
希望 is used for these senses in English:
- aspire (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
- bush-cricket Synonym of katydid.
- expected value (probability theory) The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function.
- hope (countable, _, or, _, uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- inhale (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- prospect The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
hope — full definition
- verb To want something to happen and believe it might.
- noun A feeling of trust or expectation that something good will happen.