Definition of Thrives

1. Verb. (third-person singular of thrive) ¹

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Definition of Thrives

1. thrive [v] - See also: thrive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrives

thrissel
thrissels
thrist
thristed
thristing
thristle
thristles
thrists
thristy
thrittene
thrive
thrived
thriven
thriver
thrivers
thrives (current term)
thriving
thrivingly
thrivingness
thrivings
thrix
thrix annulata
thro
thro'
throat
throat-boll
throat distemper
throat infection
throat latch

Literary usage of Thrives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"It also thrives on sands. Site and elevation. The type of peach-growing business one expects to engage in has much to do with the kind of location and site ..."

2. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1859)
"... abundantly seen in the markets of Philadelphia, as it thrives well in the sandy soils of New Jersey. Coxe first described this fruit; the original tree ..."

3. A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago by Eliza Southgate Bowne (1887)
"My little Mary1 has a wet-nurse; she is a fine, lively child, and thrives fast. Adieu, my Dear Mother; I did not think I could have written half as much; ..."

4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"It is most abundantly seen in the markets of Philadelphia, as it thrives well in the sandy soils of New Jersey. Coxe first described this fruit; ..."

5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... indicates some tree which thrives best in low and rather moist situations, whereas the chestnut-tree is a tree which prefers dry and hilly pround. ..."

6. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... Human Nature— Two " Quizzing" Ladies—Nothing Sacred to Them—An Illogical Dame —Her "Precarious Organ"—A "Vice that thrives Amid Christian Graces "—How ..."

7. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... and you may see how it thrives with him, for his braines have been wonderfully blasted of late, ..."

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