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espérance — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • expectancy noun A feeling of anticipation about something that is likely to happen.
  • hope verb To want something to happen and believe it might.

Senses

espérance is used for these senses in English:

  • Hope (rare) A en given name.
  • expectancy Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
  • expected value (probability theory) The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function.

expectancy — full definition

  1. noun A feeling of anticipation about something that is likely to happen.
  2. noun A statistical figure showing how long or how much of something is likely, on average.

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.

Related French words