name
Meaning 1
A male given name from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prosper
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒspə(ɹ)/
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UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˈpɹɑspɚ/
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Canada, dialectal: /ˈpɹɒspɚ/ of the US
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Australian: /ˈpɹɔspə(ɹ)/
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CMU ARPABET: P R AA1 S P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To grow; to increase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To favor; to render successful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The new student is thriving
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thrive, fly high, flourish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change state, turn
History
Etymology
From Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“to render happy”), from prosperus (“prosperous”), from Proto-Italic *prosparos, from Proto-Indo-European *speh1- (“to succeed”), whence also Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”).
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ازدهر — to be successful
- Bulgarian: преуспя́вам (preuspjávam) — to be successful
- Bulgarian: преуспе́я (preuspéja) — to be successful
- Bulgarian: проспери́рам (prosperíram) — to be successful
- Catalan: prosperar — to be successful
- Chinese Mandarin: 亨祚 (hēngzuò) — to be successful
- Chinese Mandarin: 興旺 /兴旺 (xīngwàng) — to be successful
- Chinese Mandarin: 繁榮 /繁荣 (fánróng) — to be successful
- Chinese Mandarin: 昌盛 (chāngshèng) — to be successful
- Czech: prosperovat — to be successful
- Dutch: welvaren — to be successful
- Esperanto: prosperi — to be successful
- Finnish: voida hyvin — to be successful
- Finnish: to grow — to be successful
- Finnish: vaurastua — to be successful
- Finnish: menestyä — to be successful
- French: prospérer — to be successful
- Galician: prosperar — to be successful
- German: gedeihen — to be successful
- German: prosperieren — to be successful
- German: florieren — to be successful
- Gothic: 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þeihan) — to be successful
- Greek: ευημερώ (evimeró) — to be successful
- Hindi: संपन्न (sampann) — to be successful
- Hindi: समृद्ध (samŕddh) — to be successful
- Hungarian: prosperál — to be successful
- Hungarian: virágzik — to be successful
- Italian: prosperare — to be successful
- Japanese: 栄える (sakaeru) — to be successful
- Japanese: 賑わう (nigiwau) — to be successful
- Lao: ຈະເລີນ (cha lœ̄n) — to be successful
- Lao: ຮຸ່ງເຮືອງ (hung hư̄ang) — to be successful
- Latin: vigeō — to be successful
- Occitan: prosperar — to be successful
- Old English: þēon — to be successful
- Polish: prosperować — to be successful
- Polish: kwitnąć — to be successful
- Portuguese: prosperar — to be successful
- Russian: процвета́ть (procvetátʹ) — to be successful
- Russian: преуспева́ть (preuspevátʹ) — to be successful
- Russian: благоде́нствовать (blagodénstvovatʹ) — to be successful
- Sanskrit: एधते (edhate) — to be successful
- Sanskrit: पुष्यति (puṣyati) — to be successful
- Shan: ၶိုၼ်ႈယႂ်ႇမႂ်ႇသုင် (khūen yàue màue sǔng) — to be successful
- Shan: မၢၵ်ႈမီးလီပဵၼ် (māak míi lǐi pǎen) — to be successful
- Spanish: prosperar — to be successful
- Thai: เจริญ (jà-rəən) — to be successful
- Thai: รุ่งเรือง (rûng-rʉʉang) — to be successful
- Turkish: başarmak — to be successful
- Ukrainian: процвіта́ти (procvitáty) — to be successful
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