English
Etymology
From Middle English prosperite, from Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās. Equivalent to prosper + -ity.
Pronunciation
Noun
prosperity (countable and uncountable, plural prosperities)
- The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.
- Synonyms: prosperousness; see also Thesaurus:wealth
- Near-synonym: thriving
Derived terms
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)
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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.