prosperity

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English prosperite, from Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās, equivalent to prosper + -ity.

Prosperity had blinded my enemy. — Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers, Unknown
But the prosperity was not real. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
He was a man whom prosperity harmed. — Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Herman Melville

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