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WHITE HOPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does white hope mean?
• WHITE HOPE (noun)
The noun WHITE HOPE has 1 sense:
1. someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field
Familiarity information: WHITE HOPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
great white hope; white hope
Context example:
this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy
Hypernyms ("white hope" is a kind of...):
hope (someone (or something) on which expectations are centered)
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