hopes

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hoʊps/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊps/

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• Rhymes: -əʊps

hopes

1. plural of hope

hopes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of hope

• Poseh, Shope, e-shop, shope

hopes

1. only used in te hopes, second-person singular present subjunctive of hoparse

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa.

hopes

1. hopes
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 9:

     Wi Irishmen owre generale hopes be ee-bond——

     With Irishmen our common hopes are inseparably bound up——

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 116