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Definition of Thriving
1. Adjective. Very lively and profitable. "Did a thriving business in orchids"
Similar to: Successful
Derivative terms: Prosperity
Definition of Thriving
1. Adjective. That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering. ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb ''to thrive''. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of thrive) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thriving
1. thrive [v] - See also: thrive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thriving
Literary usage of Thriving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"Lado had become quite "a flourishing place, the gardens were thriving and the
negroes generally were beginning to cultivate something more than pumpkins and ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"This thriving seceder Church in Holland had 276 churches in 1860 and 400 in 1900.
It has exerted a most happy influence upon the old Reformed Church by ..."
3. Reminiscences of a Nonagenarian by Sarah Smith Emery (1879)
"... of a thriving mart. The first wharf at the " water side" was built in 1656,
near the site of the present Market house, by Mr. Panl White, ..."
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