"prosper" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈpɹɒspə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹɑspɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-prosper.wav [UK] Forms: prospers [present, singular, third-person], prospering [participle, present], prospered [participle, past], prospered [past]
Etymology: From Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“I render happy”), from prosperus (“prosperous”), from Proto-Italic *prosparos, from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to succeed”), whence also Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*speh₁-}}, {{der|en|fro|prosperer}} Old French prosperer, {{der|en|la|prosperō||I render happy}} Latin prosperō (“I render happy”), {{m|la|prosperus||prosperous}} prosperus (“prosperous”), {{der|en|itc-pro|*prosparos}} Proto-Italic *prosparos, {{der|en|ine-pro|*speh₁-||to succeed}} Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to succeed”), {{m+|la|spēs||hope, expectation}} Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} prosper (third-person singular simple present prospers, present participle prospering, simple past and past participle prospered)
  1. (transitive) To favor; to render successful. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-prosper-en-verb-rQ7jf87O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 42 8
  2. (intransitive) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. Tags: intransitive Translations (to be successful): اززْدَهَرَ (Arabic), преуспя́вам (preuspjávam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), преуспе́я (preuspéja) [perfective] (Bulgarian), проспери́рам (prosperíram) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), prosperar (Catalan), 亨祚 (hēngzuò) (Chinese Mandarin), 興旺 (Chinese Mandarin), 兴旺 (xīngwàng) (Chinese Mandarin), 繁榮 (Chinese Mandarin), 繁荣 (fánróng) (Chinese Mandarin), 昌盛 (chāngshèng) (Chinese Mandarin), welvaren (Dutch), prosperi (Esperanto), voida hyvin (Finnish), to grow (Finnish), vaurastua (english: gain fortune) (Finnish), menestyä (Finnish), prospérer (French), prosperar (Galician), gedeihen (German), prosperieren (German), florieren (German), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þeihan) (Gothic), prosperare (Italian), 栄える (sakaeru) (alt: さかえる) (Japanese), 賑わう (nigiwau) (alt: にぎわう) (Japanese), ຈະເລີນ (cha lœ̄n) (Lao), ຮຸ່ງເຮືອງ (hung hư̄ang) (Lao), vigeō (Latin), prosperar (Occitan), þeon (Old English), prosperar (Portuguese), процвета́ть (procvetátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), преуспева́ть (preuspevátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), благоде́нствовать (blagodénstvovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), एधते (edhate) (Sanskrit), पुष्यति (puṣyati) (Sanskrit), ၶိုၼ်ႈယႂ်ႇမႂ်ႇသုင် (khūen yàue màue sǔng) (Shan), မၢၵ်ႈမီးလီပဵၼ် (māak míi lǐi pǎen) (Shan), prosperar (Spanish), เจริญ (jà-rəən) (Thai), รุ่งเรือง (rûng-rʉʉang) (Thai), başarmak (Turkish), процвіта́ти (procvitáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-prosper-en-verb-63-qmOHm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 42 8 Disambiguation of 'to be successful': 30 70 0
  3. (intransitive) To grow; to increase. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-prosper-en-verb-de-yq6Ix
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: prospre [obsolete, rare], prosper, do well, do well for oneself, gain, grow, thrive, flourish, succeed Related terms: cheaters never prosper, cheats never prosper, ill-gotten gains never prosper, prosperer, prosperity, prosperous

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "繁荣"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chāngshèng",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "昌盛"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to be successful",
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "prosperi"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be successful",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "to grow"
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          "code": "fi",
          "english": "gain fortune",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "vaurastua"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to be successful",
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          "sense": "to be successful",
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "prosperar"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "gedeihen"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "prosperieren"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "florieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "þeihan",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "prosperare"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "alt": "さかえる",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sakaeru",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "栄える"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "alt": "にぎわう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nigiwau",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "賑わう"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "cha lœ̄n",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "ຈະເລີນ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "hung hư̄ang",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "ຮຸ່ງເຮືອງ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "vigeō"
        },
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          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "prosperar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "þeon"
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        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "prosperar"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "procvetátʹ",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "процвета́ть"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "preuspevátʹ",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "преуспева́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "blagodénstvovatʹ",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "благоде́нствовать"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "edhate",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "एधते"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "puṣyati",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "पुष्यति"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
          "code": "shn",
          "lang": "Shan",
          "roman": "khūen yàue màue sǔng",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "ၶိုၼ်ႈယႂ်ႇမႂ်ႇသုင်"
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
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          "lang": "Shan",
          "roman": "māak míi lǐi pǎen",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "မၢၵ်ႈမီးလီပဵၼ်"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to be successful",
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        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
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          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "jà-rəən",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "เจริญ"
        },
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          "_dis1": "30 70 0",
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          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "rûng-rʉʉang",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "รุ่งเรือง"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to be successful",
          "word": "başarmak"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
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          "sense": "to be successful",
          "tags": [
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "decline"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "fail"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "fall"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "fall on hard times"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "go awry"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "go downhill"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "go pear-shaped"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "go to pot"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
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    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "go to the dogs"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "go wrong"
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Italic",
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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        "3": "",
        "4": "prosperous"
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        "4": "hope, expectation"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "prospering",
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        "present"
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    {
      "word": "cheaters never prosper"
    },
    {
      "word": "cheats never prosper"
    },
    {
      "word": "ill-gotten gains never prosper"
    },
    {
      "word": "prosperer"
    },
    {
      "word": "prosperity"
    },
    {
      "word": "prosperous"
    }
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To favor; to render successful."
      ],
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          "favor",
          "favor"
        ]
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        "(transitive) To favor; to render successful."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
          "text": "Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies. She, one may believe, was ready enough to listen. As she walked with him by the Sker water his words were like musick to her ears, and Alison within doors laughed to herself and saw her devices prosper.",
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        }
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        "To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain."
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          "succeed"
        ],
        [
          "fortunate",
          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "prosperous",
          "prosperous"
        ],
        [
          "thrive",
          "thrive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To grow; to increase."
      ],
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        [
          "grow",
          "grow"
        ],
        [
          "increase",
          "increase"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To grow; to increase."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒspə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑspɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
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    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "prospre"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "prosper"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "do well"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "do well for oneself"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "gain"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "grow"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "thrive"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "flourish"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:prosper",
      "word": "succeed"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "اززْدَهَرَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "preuspjávam",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "преуспя́вам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "preuspéja",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "преуспе́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prosperíram",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "проспери́рам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hēngzuò",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "亨祚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "興旺"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xīngwàng",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "兴旺"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "繁榮"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fánróng",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "繁荣"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chāngshèng",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "昌盛"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "welvaren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "voida hyvin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "to grow"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "gain fortune",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "vaurastua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "menestyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prospérer"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "gedeihen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "florieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "þeihan",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "さかえる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sakaeru",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "栄える"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にぎわう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nigiwau",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "賑わう"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "cha lœ̄n",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "ຈະເລີນ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "hung hư̄ang",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "ຮຸ່ງເຮືອງ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "vigeō"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "þeon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "procvetátʹ",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "процвета́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "preuspevátʹ",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "преуспева́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blagodénstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "благоде́нствовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "edhate",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "एधते"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "puṣyati",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "पुष्यति"
    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "khūen yàue màue sǔng",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "ၶိုၼ်ႈယႂ်ႇမႂ်ႇသုင်"
    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "māak míi lǐi pǎen",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "မၢၵ်ႈမီးလီပဵၼ်"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "prosperar"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "jà-rəən",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "เจริญ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "rûng-rʉʉang",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "รุ่งเรือง"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "word": "başarmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "procvitáty",
      "sense": "to be successful",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "процвіта́ти"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prosper"
}

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