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English

Etymology

From Middle English thryven, thriven, from Old Norse þrífa (“to seize, grasp, take hold, prosper”) (Swedish trivas), from Proto-Germanic *þr?ban? (“to seize, prosper”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep-, *terp- (“to satisfy, enjoy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?v/

• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

thrive (third-person singular simple present thrives, present participle thriving, simple past throve or thrived, past participle thriven or thrived)

1. 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, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 16,^[1]

     “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.”

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:

     So, on I went. I think I never saw / Such starved ignoble nature; nothing throve: / For flowers - as well expect a cedar grove!

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 3,^[2]

     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.

2. To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.

   Since expanding in June, the business has really thrived.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice, Act II Scene 7

     [...] Deliver me the key.

     Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:prosper

Translations

Anagrams

• riveth