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Hope in a Prison of Despair, by Mary Evelyn de Morgan, depicting Hope as a woman or very young man holding a lamp, representing the comfort brought by religious faith. Hope is a given name derived from the Middle English hope, ultimately from the Old English word hopian [1] referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope.
Hope is an English, Scottish and Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. A. D ...
Tartan Hope. The surname Hope may be of native Scottish origin, being derived from the Scottish Borders family of Hop or Hoip. [4] In 1296 John de Hop of Peeblesshire and Adam le Houp both appear on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England. [4] Alexander Nisbet suggested that the name may be from the H'oublons of Picardy family in ...
Many places throughout the United States take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these languages.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's own life, or the world at large. [1] As a verb, Merriam-Webster defines hope as "to expect with confidence" or "to cherish a desire with anticipation". [2] Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness ...
The Cahills thought that Shah Jahan was behind the hiding the Clue in Mission 2. [126] Ustad Ahmad Lahauri (from Lahore, Pakistan) is a famous architect. [126] During the construction of Taj Mahal, he was assigned to hide a Clue in one of his fortresses.