prosperities
Saypro-SPAIR-i-teezUS/pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.tiz/UK/pɹɒˈspɛɹ.ɪ.tiz/
- 1Plural of prosperity. Rare, since prosperity is usually uncountable.
The historian compared the prosperities of rival ports along the coast.
Successive prosperities and downturns gradually shaped the nation's character.
Note
A plural that exists only because prosperity can be counted. Usually the noun is uncountable: a nation enjoys prosperity, not a prosperity. Once separate periods, places or kinds of flourishing are set side by side, it becomes countable, and the final y changes to -ies. Use it when the contrast is the point, as in the prosperities of rival ports or of successive eras.
prosperities is a form of prosperity
prosperity, noun: The state of being successful and well-off, marked by good fortune and wealth. Full entry
- Forms
- prosperityprosperities plural
- Spelling
- prosperity → prosperities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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