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Webster 1913 Edition
Thrive
Thrive
(thrīv)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp.
Throve
(thrōv)
or Thrived
(thrīvd)
; p. p.
Thrived
or Thriven
(thrĭv′’n)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Thriving
.] [OE.
þriven
, Icel. þrīfask
; probably originally, to grasp for one’s self, from þrīfa
to grasp; akin to Dan. trives
to thrive, Sw. trifvas
. Cf. Thrift
.] 1.
To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate;
as, a farmer
. thrives
by good husbandryDiligence and humility is the way to
thrive
in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.
2.
To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.
“They by vices thrive.” Sandys.
O son, why sit we here, each other viewing
Idly, while Satan, our great author,
Idly, while Satan, our great author,
thrives
? Milton.
And so she
throve
and prospered. Tennyson.
3.
To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish;
as, young cattle
. thrive
in rich pastures; trees thrive
in a good soilWebster 1828 Edition
Thrive
THRIVE
, v.i.1.
To prosper by industry, economy and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate. A farmer thrives by good husbandry. When the body of laboring men thrive, we pronounce the state prosperous. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold.
2.
To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. O son, why sit we here, each other viewing
Idly, while Satan our great author thrives?
They by vices thrive.
3.
To grow; to increase in bulk or stature; to flourish. Young cattle thrive in rich pastures; and trees thrive in a good soil.4.
To grow; to advance; to increase or advance in any thing valuable.Definition 2024
thrive
thrive
English
Verb
thrive (third-person singular simple present thrives, present participle thriving, simple past throve or thrived, past participle thriven or thrived)
- To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe,
- “It seems to me, reverend father,” said the knight, “that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have thriven with you marvellously.”
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 3,
- The growing things jumbled themselves together into a dense thicket; so tensely earnest were things about growing in Skedans that everything linked with everything else, hurrying to grow to the limit of its own capacity; weeds and weaklings alike throve in the rich moistness.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe,
- To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
- Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived.
- 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
- Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:prosper
Translations
to increase in bulk or stature
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to prosper by industry
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