hope
noun
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
hoper
-
a word derived from
hope.
Example Sentences
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But she says the system self regulates because a publisher and a store would never exchange money for a "no hoper".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022
Of course, there's a difference: in the movie, Bill's no-hoper status encourages him to cut loose with a campaign centred on real substance, and thus it is that the no-hoper becomes a hoper.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2010
I have always been an obstinate hoper: and even this is a 'datum' and a symptom of hope to me, that a better, an ancestral, spirit is forming and will appear in the rising generation.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
There was no appeal, and aloft went the wounded, ragged, famished hoper of devouring turtle-soup.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Kirsty ceased to look upon him with the pity hitherto colouring all her devotion; pride had taken its place, which she buttressed with a massive hope, for Kirsty was a splendid hoper.
From Heather and Snow by George MacDonald
