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encouragement
English
Alternative forms
- incouragement (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French encoragement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?n?k???d?m?nt]
Noun
encouragement (countable and uncountable, plural encouragements)
- The act of encouraging
- Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive
- 1904, Edward Verrall Lucas, Highways and Byways in Sussex Chapter 2
- even their arch-enemy the gamekeeper is beginning reluctantly, but gradually, to acquiesce in the general belief of their innocence and utility, I cannot help indulging the hope that this bird will eventually meet with that general encouragement and protection to which its eminent services so richly entitle it.
- 1904, Edward Verrall Lucas, Highways and Byways in Sussex Chapter 2
- Words or actions that increase someone's confidence
- 7 January 2017, Adharanand Finn writing in The Guardian, The 24-hour race: 'It is a battle with your mind'
- Diana Celeiro has come all the way from Argentina for the race. It’s her second time here. Her husband, Gustavo, acts as her support crew. Most of the runners have someone who stands diligently by the track watching, offering encouragement, preparing snacks or helping with any issues that arise, from blisters to emotional breakdowns.
- 1776, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Chapter 4
- If I live, an' please your honour, but once to get through it, I will never tell it again, quoth Trim, either to man, woman, or child--Poo--poo! said my uncle Toby--but with accents of such sweet encouragement did he utter it, that the corporal went on with his story with more alacrity than ever.
- 7 January 2017, Adharanand Finn writing in The Guardian, The 24-hour race: 'It is a battle with your mind'
- The feeling of being encouraged
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:praise
Translations
References
encouragement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From encourager +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.ku.?a?.m??/
Noun
encouragement m (plural encouragements)
- An encouragement
Further reading
- “encouragement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
encouragement From the web:
- what encouragement means
- what encouragement is given to young athletes
- what encouragement can do
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- what do encouragement mean
hope
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /h??p/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ho?p/
- Rhymes: -??p
Etymology 1
From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“to expect, hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n, further etymology unclear.
Verb
hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)
- (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
- To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
- (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81
- I hope in thy word.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlii. 11
- Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81
- (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
- here's hoping
- hoped for
Translations
See also
- aspire
- desire
- expect
- look forward
- want
Etymology 2
From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the verb hope.
Noun
hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)
- (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
- But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Derived terms
Related terms
- forlorn hope
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English h?p (found only in placenames). More at hoop.
Noun
hope (plural hopes)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.
Etymology 4
From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.
Noun
hope (plural hopes)
- A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- pheo, pheo-
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
hope
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hopen
Maori
Noun
hope
- waist
- hip (ringa hope)
Shona
Etymology
From the root of Common Bantu *d??kópè, whence also chikope (“eyelid”).
Noun
hópé 10
- sleep
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ho?p?/
Noun
hope n (no plural)
- Alternative form of hoop
hope From the web:
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- what hope was there in seth's birth
- what hope means to me
- what hopeless romantic means
- what hopeless mean
- what hope an eden prophesied
- what hope does penelope receive
- what hope is there for the future
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