prosper

1 grow stronger; "The economy was booming" [syn: boom, thrive, get ahead, flourish, expand]

2 gain in wealth [syn: thrive, fly high, flourish]

English

Verb

1. To favor; to render successful.
2. To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
3. To grow; to increase.

Related terms

• prosperous

Translations

• Arabic: يزدهر (yazdaher)
• Dutch: welvaren
• Old English: þeon

Prosper may refer to:

Cities

• Prosper, Texas
• Prosper, Belgium

Person

• Prosper of Aquitaine, also known as Prosper Tiro, Christian writer and disciple of St Augustine
• Prosper of Catenanuova, martyr, patron saint of Catenanuova
• Prosper of Orléans, saint
• Prosper of Reggio, bishop of Reggio Emilia, 5th century
• Prosper of Burundi, a great son of the Bagani clan, son to Ndabaneze, grandson to Bukuru, and great grandson to Kidomo
• "Prosper" was the codename of Francis Suttill, Special Operations Executive agent in WWII Occupied France, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and executed
• Prosper Mérimée, French writer

Other

• Prosper Marketplace, a business, that allows online person-to-person lending and borrowing

See also

• Prospero
• Prospero (disambiguation)

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