ホープ

noun

hope

Used for the abstract idea of hope, but in ordinary Japanese 希望 is usually the more natural everyday word. ホープ in this sense often feels like a katakana or English-style wording.

• 「ホープ」は「希き望ぼう」という意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  ホープ is sometimes used to mean “hope.”

noun

promising person; rising hope; white hope

Common for a person expected to do well in the future, especially in sports, companies, schools, or other groups. Often appears as 若手ホープ or チームのホープ.

• 彼かれはチームのホープとして期き待たいされている。

  He is expected to be the team’s rising hope.

• 彼かの女じょは研けん究きゅう所じょの若わか手てホープだ。

  She is a promising young researcher at the institute.