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Definition: Prospering |
ProsperingAdjective1. Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prospering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: ProsperingSynonyms: booming (adj), flourishing (adj), palmy (adj), prosperous (adj), roaring (adj), thriving (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prospering |
| English words defined with "prospering": prosperity ♦ successfulness. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
Daniel Webster | If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The growth of the Canadian market for commercial cooking equipment is directly linked to the health of the food service industry, which is prospering due to favorable economic conditions. (references) | |
The hotel segment of the industry is prospering as favorable exchange rates and increases in disposable income encourage more Canadians, as well as more foreign visitors, to travel in Canada. (references) | ||
Despite various tax reforms to stimulate consumption and a slight general economic upswing, expenditures for textile products did not sprout in 1999. Prospering companies who realize profits are exceptions. (references) | ||
Economic History | Norway | Other major industries are prospering as well - information technology, fishing, pulp and paper products, although Norway's shipbuilding industry is under increasingly heavy competition from overseas shipyards. (references) |
Hungary | The prospering companies of this segment are typically wholly owned subsidiaries of European/American manufacturers or major chains (e.g., Tesco, Cora, Brico, Office Depot, etc.). A typical distribution channel in Hungary starts with the importer-wholesaler, which may directly service the retailer or the end-user. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prospering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "Prospering" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 88.46% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
farm prospering | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prospering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزدهر (flourishing, flowered, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, thriving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 繁荣 (Prosper, Prospered, Prosperity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | prospérant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | florierend (prosperous), Erfolg habend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 繁 (flourishing, prosperity, thriving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"えい (anti-British, flourishing, influence, penumbra, prosperity, reflection, thriving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 번영 (flourishing, Prosperity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osperingpray cinntinn (increasing). (various references) uppblomstrande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | prosperans, -ntis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Prospering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phosferine, Rossnerin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prospering" (pronounced prÄ"spering) |
| 5 | -s p er i ng | whispering. |
| 4 | -p er i ng | diapering, hampering, pampering, papering, peppering, scampering, tampering, tapering, tempering, wallpapering, whimpering, zippering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pandering, partnering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, teetering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, withering, wondering, Wuthering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: grippers, ignorers, perigons, prisoner, propines, reposing, respring, spongier, springer. | |
-3 letters: epigons, eringos, gippers, gorsier, gripers, gripper, grippes, gropers, ignorer, ignores, ironers, nippers, orpines, perigon, perrons, pigeons, pigpens, pingers, pingoes, pirogen, porgies, pornier, presong, propers, propine, prosier, prosing, prosper, regions, ringers, rippers, serpigo, signore, snipper, soppier, sopping, sponger, sporing, springe. | |
-4 letters: epigon, eringo, erring. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s" | |
+3 letters: pornographies, preprocessing, sharecropping. | |
+4 letters: propagandizers, sporangiophore. | |
+5 letters: semipornography, sporangiophores. | |
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