white hope

1. 1.

   someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field

   “this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy”

   Synonymsgreat white hope

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Questions about white hope

What does white hope mean?

white hope means "someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field".

What is another word for white hope?

Close synonyms include great white hope. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white hope a common word?

white hope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.