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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prosper \Pros"per\, v. i.
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To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper.
--Milton. -
To grow; to increase. [Obs.]
Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable timber.
--Evelyn.
Prosper \Pros"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prospered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Prospering.] [F. prosp['e]rer v. i., or L.
prosperare, v. i., or L. prosperare, v. t., fr. prosper or
prosperus. See Prosperous.]
To favor; to render successful. ``Prosper thou our
handiwork.''
--Bk. of Common Prayer.
All things concur toprosper our design.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French prosperer (14c.) and directly from Latin prosperare "cause to succeed, render happy," from prosperus "favorable, fortunate, prosperous," perhaps literally "agreeable to one's wishes," traditionally regarded as from Old Latin pro spere "according to expectation, according to one's hope," from pro "for" + ablative of spes "hope," from PIE root *spe- "to flourish, succeed, thrive, prosper" (see speed (n.)).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To favor; to render successful. 2 (context intransitive English) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. 3 (context intransitive English) To grow; to increase.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 717
Land area (2000): 4.950138 sq. miles (12.820799 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.950138 sq. miles (12.820799 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59696
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.238295 N, 96.790850 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75078
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Prosper may refer to:
People:
- Prosper (name)
Places:
- Prosper, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
- Prosper, North Dakota, an unincorporated community
- Prosper, Oregon, an unincorporated community
- Prosper, Texas, a town
In computer software:
- LaTeX prosper class for making presentations, later superseded by HA-prosper, which was eventually made into Powerdot
- PROSPER, a computer programming language invented by Earl Isaac in the early 1970s.
Other uses:
- Prosper Marketplace, a business, that allows online person-to-person lending and borrowing
- Prosper network, a Special Operations Executive network in occupied France
Prosper is both a given male name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Usage examples of "prosper".
It is better for the workman that he should prosper, for the fund of capital accumulated is that upon which they depend to give them wages in a dull time.
The richest veins of anthracite in the world are within a thirty-mile sector from Gibbsville, and when those veins are being worked, Gibbsville prospers.
Widmore, after bidding him a bluff good-morning, told him bluntly that she was sorry his suit had not prospered.
Prosper, with his red hair, big, candid eyes, pock-marked skin, coming out of the Miramar by the little back door and hurrying across to the Brasserie des Artistes.
I am pursued by the knowledge that nought I do can prosper, for the cry of innocence is raised against me, and the earth groans with the secret burthen I have committed to her bosom.
The business prospered well enough to eventually allow them to open a millinery and even to employ a clerk.
Habana with a famous patronymic, a decent sword, personal honor, ambition, and damned little else save, perhaps, a letter of introduction to some midlevel official, for he and I both came west across the Ocean Sea in just such fashion, knowing that we would sink or swim, live or die, prosper or starve by dint of only our wits, our strong swordarms, and the Will of God.
He sent a honeyed letter to Ori by one of the villagers who sold fish in Drunk Town, saying how delighted he was to hear Ori was alive and not dead in the dreadful fire as he had heard, also that he was prospering and could they meet in the Yoshiwara that evening as Akimoto also wanted to discuss shishi matters of great importance.
I believe our ranch will best prosper if we speedily submerge our longhorns and Shorthorns and change over completely to Herefords.
SCHWARTZ SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN CHAPTER V HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN, WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER CHAPTER I HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was in old time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility.
But Johnson grew stouter and prospered in spite of his wife--for a year or so.
The beads began to sink from sight into the silvery mixture before, reluctantly, the thermite caught fire and prospered.
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.
Business was good in Massachusetts in the calm of 1772 and Adams prospered once again.
Although Alamanni tribes wander about Noricum, too, there are also small settlements of Roman colonists whose ancestors emigrated from Italia, mainly because there is much iron in the ground here, and the Noricans prosper by making the fine Noric steel that Rome buys for making weapons.