The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrive \Thrive\ (thr[imac]v), v. i. [imp. Throve (thr[=o]v) or Thrived (thr[imac]vd); p. p. Thrived or Thriven (thr[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Thriving.] [OE. [thorn]riven, Icel. [thorn]r[=i]fask; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from [thorn]r[=i]fa to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw. trifvas. Cf. Thrift.]
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To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold.
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To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. ``They by vices thrive.''
--Sandys.O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives?
--Milton.And so she throve and prospered.
--Tennyson. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.
Thriven \Thriv"en\, p. p. of Thrive.
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vb. (past participle of thrive English)
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Usage examples of "thriven".
Nevertheless, like many other heretics, plants have thriven very fairly well.
You clothed me in a robe of woven gold And bade me thrive: how I have thriven, you see.
He has thriven in these days and I have fallen away, but time was that he and I were true sworn companions, and plighted together in friendship never to be sundered.
I used to wonder what was the trade or business in which the minister would not have thriven, mentally I mean, if it had so happened that he had been called into that state.
Add to these a third plain fact, that Italy was the mother-country of the drama, where it had thriven with wonderful fertility ever since the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The family had gathered to triumph over all this, to give a show of tenacious unity, to illustrate gloriously that law of property underlying the growth of their tree, by which it had thriven and spread, trunk and branches, the sap flowing through all, the full growth reached at the appointed time.
CHAPTER XXXVII--THE DUEL Heretofore all my magisterial undertakings and concerns had thriven in a very satisfactory manner.
Trade, therefore, at Courcy, had not thriven since the railway opened: and, indeed, had any patient inquirer stood at the cross through one entire day, counting customers who entered the neighbouring shops, he might well have wondered that any shops in Courcy could be kept open.
It is a place with a specialty, upon which specialty it has thriven well and become a town.
Others have thriven, and houses have been packed on to houses, till London and Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow have been produced.
Lincoln, having thriven as a politician by his adherence to Southern principles.
The planters have thriven, and the cotton fields have spread themselves.
Yet these men have had no help, but only hindrance, with cold and disease, and barren lands, and Indian wars, but they have thriven and multiplied until the woods thin away in front of them like ice in the sun, and their church bells are heard where but yesterday the wolves were howling.
This plant had thriven all winter, and the cattle had forsaken the best mesquite grazing in the river bottoms to forage on it.
For eighty years that blessed country had thriven and prospered, and that it should all end now, over an issue that was irrelevant to the general welfare of the majority of the people, was untenable to her.