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" Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country."
Isabel Allende

Meaning of "prosper" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROSPER

From Latin prosperāre to succeed, from prosperus fortunate, from pro-1 + spēs hope.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PROSPER

ˈprɒspə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROSPER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prosper is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prosper in English.

WHAT DOES PROSPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prosper

Prosper may refer to: People: ▪ Prosper Places: ▪ Prosper, Minnesota, 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community ▪ Prosper, Texas, a town In computer software: ▪ LaTeX prosper class for making presentations, later superseded by HA-prosper, which was eventually made into Powerdot ▪ PROSPER, a computer programming language invented by Earl Isaac in the early 1970s.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...

Definition of prosper in the English dictionary

The definition of prosper in the dictionary is to thrive, succeed, etc, or cause to thrive, succeed, etc in a healthy way.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PROSPER

PRESENT

Present
I prosper
you prosper
he/she/it prospers
we prosper
you prosper
they prosper
Present continuous
I am prospering
you are prospering
he/she/it is prospering
we are prospering
you are prospering
they are prospering
Present perfect
I have prospered
you have prospered
he/she/it has prospered
we have prospered
you have prospered
they have prospered
Present perfect continuous
I have been prospering
you have been prospering
he/she/it has been prospering
we have been prospering
you have been prospering
they have been prospering
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I prospered
you prospered
he/she/it prospered
we prospered
you prospered
they prospered
Past continuous
I was prospering
you were prospering
he/she/it was prospering
we were prospering
you were prospering
they were prospering
Past perfect
I had prospered
you had prospered
he/she/it had prospered
we had prospered
you had prospered
they had prospered
Past perfect continuous
I had been prospering
you had been prospering
he/she/it had been prospering
we had been prospering
you had been prospering
they had been prospering
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will prosper
you will prosper
he/she/it will prosper
we will prosper
you will prosper
they will prosper
Future continuous
I will be prospering
you will be prospering
he/she/it will be prospering
we will be prospering
you will be prospering
they will be prospering
Future perfect
I will have prospered
you will have prospered
he/she/it will have prospered
we will have prospered
you will have prospered
they will have prospered
Future perfect continuous
I will have been prospering
you will have been prospering
he/she/it will have been prospering
we will have been prospering
you will have been prospering
they will have been prospering
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would prosper
you would prosper
he/she/it would prosper
we would prosper
you would prosper
they would prosper
Conditional continuous
I would be prospering
you would be prospering
he/she/it would be prospering
we would be prospering
you would be prospering
they would be prospering
Conditional perfect
I would have prosper
you would have prosper
he/she/it would have prosper
we would have prosper
you would have prosper
they would have prosper
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been prospering
you would have been prospering
he/she/it would have been prospering
we would have been prospering
you would have been prospering
they would have been prospering
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you prosper
we let´s prosper
you prosper
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to prosper
Past participle
prospered
Present Participle
prospering
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROSPER

asper · Caspar · chutzpah · clasper · crisper · Gaspar · gasper · grasper · hutzpah · jasper · lisper · rasper · ROSPA · vespa · vesper · whisper

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROSPER

prospect · prospecting · prospection · prospective · prospectively · prospectiveness · prospectless · prospector · prospects · prospectus · prosperity · prosperity gospel · prosperous · prosperously · prosperousness · pross · prossie · Prost · prostacyclin · prostaglandin

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROSPER

cooper · copper · developer · Egyptian jasper · good and proper · Harper · hyper · newspaper · paper · pepper · per · proper · skyscraper · sniper · spiritus asper · stage whisper · super · the grim reaper · upper · wallpaper

Synonyms and antonyms of prosper in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROSPER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prosper» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «prosper» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PROSPER

Find out the translation of prosper to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of prosper from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prosper» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

兴隆
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

prosperar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

prosper
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

समृद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تزدهر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

процветать
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

prosperar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

উন্নতিলাভ করা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

prospérer
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Makmur
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

gedeihen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

繁栄する
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

번영하다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Makmur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phát triển thịnh vượng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

செழிப்புற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

समृद्धी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

başarılı olmak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

prosperare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

prosperować
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

процвітати
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

prospera
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευημερούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorspoedig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blomstra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blomstre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prosper

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSPER»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of prosper
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «prosper».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prosper

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PROSPER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prosper.
1
Isabel Allende
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
2
Roy Barnes
I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.
3
Sarah Bernhardt
Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
4
Ambrose Bierce
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
5
Ron D. Burton
In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.
6
Arpad Busson
Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper.
7
Julian Castro
We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.
8
James Chanos
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
9
Adam Clarke
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
10
Billy Corgan
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSPER»

Discover the use of prosper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prosper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prosper: Create the Life You Really Want
In Prosper they share six Prosperity Practices that will enable you to create a life that is rewarding, enriching and renewing.
Ethan Willis, Randy Garn, 2011
2
Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
In Thou Shall Prosper, Rabbi Lapin has done it again. This book tells it like it is in a helpful, honest, hopeful, informative way.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, 2009
3
Prosper
New Thought expert Charles Fillmore makes the argument that the Universe wants all of us to prosper -- but that it's up to us to develop the spiritual and mental tools that are necessary to tap into this infinite abundance.
Charles Fillmore, 2009
4
Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
In Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money, Rabbi Daniel Lapin offers a practical approach to creating wealth based on the established principles of Jewish tradition.
Daniel E. Lapin, 2002
5
Plans to Prosper You
Do you find hope in Jeremiah 29? George Sayour takes you on a journey into this prophecy. Through it, he highlights his own experiences and gives practical steps for applying this promise to your life.
George E. Sayour, 2006
6
The Power to Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom
Using biblical principles and promises in her softcover book The Power to Prosper, Michelle Singletary teaches you practical ways to financial freedom by putting you on a twenty-one-day financial fast, where you are prohibited from using ...
Michelle Singletary, 2010
7
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself ...
The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist," (The New York Times) with a brand-new chapter on Internet art marketing Now in its sixth edition, How to Survive and ...
Caroll Michels, 2009
8
The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper (Large Print 16pt)
Following the wreck's discovery some forty years ago, Simon Leys travelled to the site. This is his riveting account of the shipwreck and its brutal aftermath.
Simon Leys, 2010
9
Should Christians Prosper?: Teacher/Student Study Book
If you do not consider yourself a Christian, don't let that deter you from reading this book. After reading this book, you may just want to become one. Don't waste another minute.
James H. Hooks, 2012
10
Overcome Fear and Prosper: none
ABOUT THE BOOK overcome fear and prosper divine- way out: is an inspirational and motivational prayer book that will change your life.
Don Uka, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSPER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prosper is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Utseya lays racism allegations against Campbell
Zimbabwe offspinner Prosper Utseya has, in a letter to Zimbabwe Cricket, claimed that he is a victim of racism and has levelled a string of allegations against ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
2
Prosper blanks Georgetown 8-0 for 5A state baseball title
ROUND ROCK — Georgetown's Eagles entered their summer with silver. The Georgetown baseball team was unable to counter an early attack from Prosper in ... «Austin American-Statesman, Jun 15»
3
Prosper to Charge Fee to Investors That Bundle Loans Into Bonds
Prosper Marketplace Inc., the first peer-to-peer lender in the U.S., is planning to charge an extra fee to investors who want to bundle its loans into bonds in order ... «Bloomberg, Jun 15»
4
Prosper Marketplace And OnDeck Announce Strategic Partnership
NEW YORK, April 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Prosper Marketplace, which operates the largest privately held online marketplace for credit, and On Deck Capital, ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
5
Wall Street mania propels Prosper to $2B value
On the heels of LendingClub's blockbuster initial public offering late last year, smaller rival Prosper Marketplace has just raised $165 million from investors ... «CNBC, Apr 15»
6
Apple Building 'Live Long and Prosper' Spock Emoji
As spotted by Quartz, a 'Live Long and Prosper' hand symbol emoji has been found in the test versions of both Apple's OS X and iOS Mac and iPhone/iPad ... «Yahoo Tech, Apr 15»
7
Mahama fires Prosper Bani, appoints Julius Debrah as Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff Prosper Bani has been relieved of his position by President John Mahama who has now appointed Minister for Local Government and Rural ... «Citifmonline, Feb 15»
8
Businessman Prosper Mkwaiwa dies
Businessman and music promoter Prosper Mkwaiwa succumbed to death after complaining of a fever over the weekend. «Times LIVE, Feb 15»
9
After Year of Growth, Prosper Buys a Surgical Procedures Lender
But its closest competitor, Prosper, wants people to know that it is not sitting still. After huge gains in sales last year, Prosper, an online marketplace for loans, ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
10
World Cup 2015: Zimbabwe Pick Prosper Utseya Despite Bowling …
Spinner Prosper Utseya was suspended last year while the ICC reviewed his action, and although he has been cleared to play, he can only bowl ... «NDTVSports.com, Jan 15»
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