Prosper
['prɒspə] or ['prɑspɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) To favor; to render successful.
(v. i.) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
(v. i.) To grow; to increase.
Typist: Rodger
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Favor, befriend, aid, forward, help, make successful.
v. n. Succeed, flourish, thrive, go on well, be successful.
Editor: Vicky
Definition
v.t. to make fortunate or happy: (B.) to make to prosper.—v.i. to be successful: to succeed: to turn out well.—n. Prosper′ity the state of being prosperous: success: good fortune.—adj. Pros′perous according to hope: in accordance with one's wishes: making good progress: favourable: successful.—adv. Pros′perously.—n. Pros′perousness.
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Examples
- Trade is likely to prosper for some years to come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What the poets and story-tellers say--that the wicked prosper and the righteous are afflicted, or that justice is another's gain? Plato. The Republic.
- If your suit should prosper, if Lucie should love you, you shall tell me on your marriage morning. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- May you prosper! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Oh, the fathomless love That has deigned to approve And prosper the work of my hands. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She measures time, not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise, and prosper and crumble to ruin. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Go on and prosper! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Arkwright built a mill there in 1780, and it prospered exceedingly, in spite of the fact that he no longer had the protection of his patents. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I could not help expressing something of my wonder and regret that his benevolent, disinterested intentions had prospered so little. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It would be flying in the face of the Almighty that's prospered him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As the dinner got on, I became aware, little by little, that this festival was not prospering as other like festivals had prospered before it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We prospered, we traveled, we came back as rich colonials to England, and we bought country estates. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Men felt free; the community prospered; one suffered chiefly from jealousy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had managed for me, in my absence, with the soundest judgement; and my worldly affairs were prospering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As the dinner got on, I became aware, little by little, that this festival was not prospering as other like festivals had prospered before it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You are prospering, please the Powers? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Athens, prospering for a time after the Persian repulse, was smitten by the plague, in which Pericles, its greatest ruler, died (428 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was happy and useful, was prospering as she had hoped. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have already said, that for my prospering there, I am sensible I may be indebted to you, sir. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Edited by Andrea