Definitions for hoping
hop·ing

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1. hoping(Noun)

   desiring

2. hoping(Noun)

   being optimistic toward

3. hoping(Adjective)

   filled with or inspiring hope (uncommon)

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Hoping

   of Hope

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hoping' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3087

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hoping' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1683

How to pronounce hoping?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say hoping in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hoping in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hoping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of hoping in a Sentence

1. Ayanna Pressley:

   I was hoping the President would not even tweet yesterday about John Lewis. At this point we don't need anybody's sympathies or tweets. What we need is action, if you really want to honor the life of John Lewis, you don't do things like gut the fair housing laws. You don't sow the seeds of division. And you don't delay bringing the Voting Rights Advancement Act named after John Lewis to the floor. And that should be brought to the floor immediately.

2. Superintendent Vicki Townsend:

   We are currently delivering the training as part of the force training days to frontline officers, forty officers get an input [each] week. This started in January and is due to finish in May. This is is the first scenario that we built. We have planned to build 10 scenarios … We are also hoping to build multi-agency-based scenarios.

3. Richard Walton:

   Witnesses may now be living in other countries all these years later, we are hoping that with the passage of time and with allegiances changing, that witnesses who have not spoken to us will examine their consciences and come forward.

4. Angel Ortiz:

   Atlantic City is messed up. It's always gonna be messed up until somebody comes in here and does the right thing, that's why I'm hoping the state takes it over. Why not? Officials down here ain't really doing anything.

5. Maria Stamatopoulos:

   George Papadopoulos were hoping for no jail time but two weeks is OK, it's time to think about everything.

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