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English
Etymology
From Middle English thryven, thriven, from Old Norse þrífa (“to seize, grasp, take hold, prosper”), from Proto-Germanic *þrībaną (“to seize, prosper”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep-, *terp- (“to satisfy, enjoy”). Cognate with Swedish trivas, Danish trives, Norwegian Bokmål trives.
Pronunciation
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.
Not all animals thrive well in captivity.
to thrive upon hard work
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:“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.”
1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 4, in The Hobbit:Dwarves had not passed that way for many years, but Gandalf had, and he knew how evil and danger had grown and thriven in the Wild, since the dragons had driven men from the lands, and the goblins had spread in secret after the battle of the Mines of Moria.
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 3, in Klee Wyck: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.
- To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] Deliver me the key.
Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!
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 book title or journal name):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.
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Translations
to increase in bulk or stature
- Arabic: ظَهَرَ (ar) (ẓahara)
- Bulgarian: раста буйно (rasta bujno)
- Catalan: créixer (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 繁榮/繁荣 (zh) (fánróng)
- Czech: prospívat (cs) impf, prosperovat impf, růst (cs) impf, vzkvétat impf
- Danish: trives
- Dutch: gedijen (nl)
- Faroese: ærast (of plants)
- Finnish: viihtyä (fi) (of plants)
- French: 1&2: croître (fr) 2:prospérer (fr)
- German: gedeihen (de), prosperieren (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: θάλλω (thállō)
- Hebrew: שִֹגְשֵֹג (he) (sigség)
- Hungarian: jól megvan
- Italian: prosperare (it)
- Japanese: 繁栄する (ja) (はんえいする, han'ei suru)
- Latin: vigeō
- Maori: ngaruru, whakapuāwai
- Middle English: thryven
- Norwegian: blomstre
- Persian: شکوفیدن (šekufidan), شکفتن (fa) (šekoftan)
- Portuguese: prosperar (pt), desenvolver-se, crescer (pt)
- Russian: расцветать (ru) impf (rascvetatʹ), цвести (ru) impf (cvesti), разрастаться (ru) impf (razrastatʹsja), буйно расти (bujno rasti), пышно расти (pyšno rasti)
- Scots: dae guid
- Serbo-Croatian: bujati (sh)
- Spanish: prosperar (es), crecer (es), medrar (es)
- Swedish: frodas (sv)
- Turkish: gelişmek (tr), inkişaf etmek (tr)
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to prosper by industry
- Arabic: اِزْدَهَرَ (izdahara), أَهَلَّ (ʔahalla), أَنْجَحَ (ʔanjaḥa), أَضَاءَ (ʔaḍāʔa), أَبْلَجَ (ʔablaja), زَهَرَ (zahara), زَهَرَ (zahara)
- Bulgarian: процъфтявам (bg) (procǎftjavam), преуспявам (bg) (preuspjavam)
- Catalan: prosperar (ca)
- Czech: vzkvétat impf, dařit se (cs) impf, prosperovat impf
- Finnish: kukoistaa (fi)
- French: prospérer (fr), s’épanouir (fr)
- German: aufblühen (de), blühen (de), florieren (de)
- Italian: prosperare (it), fiorire (it)
- Latin: prōveniō, vigeō
- Latvian: plaukt (lv)
- Maori: tipu, whakapuāwai
- Middle English: thryven
- Portuguese: prosperar (pt)
- Russian: благоденствовать (ru) impf (blagodenstvovatʹ), преуспевать (ru) impf (preuspevatʹ), процветать (ru) impf (procvetatʹ)
- Sanskrit: पुष्यति (sa) (puṣyati)
- Serbo-Croatian: prosperirati (sh)
- Spanish: prosperar (es), medrar (es)
- Turkish: büyümek (tr), işi iyi gitmek, zenginleşmek
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Etymology
From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf, from Proto-West Germanic *turb.
Pronunciation
Noun
thrive (plural dhrivès)
- A sod of turf or peat.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72