The Collaborative International Dictionary
Esperance \Es"pe*rance\, n. [F. esp['e]rance, fr. L. sperans, p.
pr. of sperare to hope.]
Hope. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) expectation, hope.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 158
Land area (2000): 0.501490 sq. miles (1.298852 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.028368 sq. miles (0.073474 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.529858 sq. miles (1.372326 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24713
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.762271 N, 74.259361 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12066
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Headwords:
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Housing Units (2000): 1349
Land area (2000): 0.721918 sq. miles (1.869758 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000917 sq. miles (0.002374 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.722835 sq. miles (1.872132 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22255
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.795006 N, 122.347487 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Espérance is one of the two French words that can be translated into "hope", the other being "espoir". Whereas the latter is closer to the idea of "dream" or "fantasy" and corresponds to most of the common uses of "hope", "espérance" refers to an abstract, positive expectation. It is rarely used compared to its counterpart, except in the field of mathematics, where it refers to the Expected value, and in religious texts. The name is used for organizations in many Francophone countries.
Places- Espérance, Mauritius, a village in the district of Moka, Mauritius
- Espérance Club, a trade union for girl dressmakers in 19th and early 20th century London, England
- Espérance Football Club, Rwandan football club
- Espérance Guider, Cameroonian football club
- Espérance Sportive de Tunis, Tunisian football club
- Espérance Sportive de Zarzis, Tunisian football club
- Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne, French football club
- French ship Espérance (1781)
Usage examples of "esperance".
Comme le baron ne repondait pas, elle insista: --Pensez-vous que telle ait ete son esperance?
The lowest, and most deiected thing of Fortune, Stands still in esperance, liues not in feare: The lamentable change is from the best, The worst returnes to laughter.
France a passe sur ces arches venerables ou des mascarons, les uns souriants, les autres grimacants, semblent exprimer les miseres et les gloires, les terreurs et les esperances, les haines et les amours dont ils ont ete temoins durant des siecles.
Honneur Esperance Noblesse Renommee Justice Diligence Equite Verite Amour Liberalite Obedience Intelligence Sapience His lordship ofAubigny smiled, and moved forward to congratulate them.
They had truly thought they had a chance of stopping Emory, and all they could do now was force a point of order, persuade the Council that no vote ought to be taken on the Hope project, since it involved ship appropriations and a major budget priority decision, until deFranco could get in from Esperance and assume her seat.
He looked good, he looked rested, not a hair out of place and the dark eyes that remained so lively in a sere, enigmatic mask swept over the conspiratory powers of Esperance with not a hint of doubt, not of himself, not of the Alliance, not of the force he represented.
Kreja meant nothing at Viking, having flourished only at distant Pan-paris and Esperance in its day: at Mariner, under an alias, it meant a bad debt, and the same at Russell's.
In 1791, the French Government, justly uneasy as to the fate of these two sloops, manned two large merchantmen, the Recherche and the Esperance, which left Brest the 28th of September under the command of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux.
But if you hear anything, however minor, report it, I don't want one of you held hostage, I don't want a poison pill, I don't want a Mazianni carrier turning up in our path between here and Esperance.