prosperity

English

Etymology

From Middle English prosperite, from Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās, equivalent to prosper +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɒˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/

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• Hyphenation: pros‧per‧i‧ty

Noun

prosperity (countable and uncountable, plural prosperities)

1. The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.

   Synonyms: prosperousness; see also Thesaurus:wealth

   Near-synonym: thriving

   • 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business‎:

     “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.

Derived terms

• prosperity doctrine
• prosperity gospel
• prosperity theology

Related terms

• prosper
• prosperous

Translations

condition of being prosperous

Bulgarian: преуспяване (bg) n (preuspjavane), благоденствие (bg) n (blagodenstvie) Burmese: မင်္ဂလာ (my) (mangga.la) Catalan: prosperitat (ca) f Cebuano: kalamboan Chinese: Mandarin: 繁榮 / 繁荣 (zh) (fánróng) Czech: prosperita f Dutch: voorspoed (nl) Esperanto: prospero Estonian: jõukus Finnish: vauraus (fi) French: prospérité (fr) f Galician: prosperidade (gl) f German: Prosperität (de) f, Wohlstand (de) m Greek: ευημερία (el) f (evimería), ευπορία (el) f (efporía) Ancient: εὐθηνία f (euthēnía), ὄλβος m (ólbos) Hindi: समृद्धि (hi) (samŕddhi), संपन्न (hi) m (sampann) Icelandic: velmegun f, góðæri (is) n Irish: rath m Italian: prosperità (it) f Japanese: 繁栄 (ja) (はんえい, han'ei) Korean: 번영(繁榮) (ko) (beonyeong) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئاسوودەیی (asûdeyî), بەختیاری (ckb) (bextyarî), کامەرانی (kameranî) Latin: prosperitās f Macedonian: благосо́стојба f (blagosóstojba), процвету́вање n (procvetúvanje), има́штија f (imáštija) Malayalam: സമൃദ്ധി (ml) (samr̥ddhi), അഭിവൃദ്ധി (ml) (abhivr̥ddhi) Manchu: ᠮᡠᡴ᠋ᡩᡝᠨ (mukden) Maori: tōnuitanga, houkuratanga Middle English: welthe Occitan: prosperitat (oc) f Ottoman Turkish: عمارت (ʼimaret), عمران (ʼümran) Persian: خوشبختی (fa) (xošbaxti), کامروایی (kāmravāyī), بهروزی (fa) (behruzi) Polish: dobrobyt (pl) m Portuguese: prosperidade (pt) f Romanian: prosperitate (ro) f Russian: преуспева́ние (ru) n (preuspevánije), процвета́ние (ru) n (procvetánije), благосостоя́ние (ru) n (blagosostojánije) Sanskrit: ऋद्धि (sa) f (ṛddhi), स्वस्ति (sa) n (svasti) Scottish Gaelic: àigh, piseach m Serbo-Croatian: imućstvo n Slovak: prosperita f Spanish: prosperidad (es) f Swedish: välstånd (sv) Tagalog: kasaganaan, kaunlaran, kariwasaan Thai: ความรุ่งเรือง (th) (kwaam-rûng-rʉʉang) Turkish: refah (tr), gönenç (tr) Ukrainian: процвіта́ння n (procvitánnja), добро́бут m (dobróbut) Volapük: plöp (vo)

Further reading

• “prosperity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prosperity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.