[ US /ˈpɹɑspɝ/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒspɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
    The new student is thriving
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How To Use prosper In A Sentence

  • Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
  • We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • We are determined to make the 2008 festive season as jolly as any in the past decade or so of unrivalled prosperity. The Sun
  • Its best influence may be indirect, by the example of sudden, transforming prosperity. Times, Sunday Times
  • The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult. Fanny Lewald.
  • Every soul shall taste of death; 258 and now, O my son, my decease is at hand and I desire to charge thee with a charge, which if thou observe, thou shalt abide in safety and prosperity, till thou meet The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The country was on the verge of becoming prosperous and successful.
  • This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
  • (He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
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