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希望 — meaning in English

xī wàng

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English meaning

  • aspire verb To have a strong ambition or hope to achieve something.
  • hope verb To want something to happen and believe it might.
  • inhale verb To breathe air or another substance into the lungs.
  • prospect noun The possibility or likelihood of something happening in the future.

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

  1. verb To want something to happen and believe it might.
  2. noun A feeling of trust or expectation that something good will happen.

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