PROSPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prosper mean? 

• PROSPER (verb)
  The verb PROSPER has 1 sense:

1. make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

  Familiarity information: PROSPER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSPER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prosper    ... he / she / it prospers   
Past simple: prospered   
Past participle: prospered   
-ing form: prospering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

flourish; fly high; prosper; thrive

Context example:

The new student is thriving

Hypernyms (to "prosper" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

‘Now that shows real application!’ he cried. ‘That is the way to prosper!’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was happy and useful, was prospering as she had hoped.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“And now, my dearest, you have come far enow. May the Virgin guard and prosper thee! One kiss!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think you will prosper, for the sincere wish to be good is half the battle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This was his little vacation; he had resolved to devote it to rest and love, and in both matters he prospered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Commission has already spent 4 million Euros while the sector prospers in the absence of strict norms on mobile phones.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Such half-and-half doings never prosper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So may the saints keep you and prosper you in your undertaking!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)