thriving
th rahy ving
- v grow vigorously
The deer population in this town is thriving - v make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
The new student is thriving - s very lively and profitable
a thriving tourist center
did a thriving business in orchids
- The quintuplets born to Mary Ann Fischer, 30, wife of a billing clerk in a wholesale grocery, were thriving, and the town was afire with pride.
- How a tiny footwear company, founded by a pair of brothers, stuck coils in its shoes and grew into a thriving start-up.
- The history of the thriving Malabar coast's entrepots that so impressed Chinese adventurers has been all but scuttled by the tides of time THE MIDDLE EAST: Arabian Twilight.