prosperity
noun
a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
prosperities
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pluralof prosperity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Studying the composition and other prosperities the inner three planets could also improve understanding how unusual ultra-low density super puff planets formed, the researchers said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss."
From Time Magazine Archive
Woe to the prosperities of the world, once and again, through fear of adversity, and corruption of joy!
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
The incense of all prosperities sends up its smoke, the altar of all joy flames, the perfumed air circulates!
From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac
Among the high civilisations he seems to be very comfortably situated indeed, and to have more than his proportionate share of the prosperities going.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
