希望 — meaning in English

English meaning

• aspiration noun A strong hope or ambition to achieve something, especially something admirable.
• dream noun A series of images, thoughts, or feelings experienced during sleep.
• expectation noun A strong belief that something will happen or turn out a certain way.
• hope verb To want something to happen and believe it might.
• will verb A modal verb used to talk about the future, often with a sense of intention or certainty.
• wish noun A hope or desire for something, especially something not fully within your control.

Senses

希望 is used for these senses in English:

• aspiration The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
• dream (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
• expectation That which is expected or looked for.
• hope (countable, _, or, _, uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
• hope (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
• hope To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].
• wish The thing desired or longed for.
• wish (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.

aspiration — full definition

1. noun A strong hope or ambition to achieve something, especially something admirable.
2. noun (medicine) The act of drawing out fluid or tissue from the body using suction, usually through a needle.
3. noun (phonetics) A puff of breath released after certain consonant sounds.

dream — full definition

1. noun A series of images, thoughts, or feelings experienced during sleep.
2. noun A strong hope, ambition, or wish for the future.
3. verb To experience images and events in the mind while asleep.
4. verb To hope or aspire to something.

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