Both Uses of
prosperous
in
Do You Speak American?
- Eventually Celeste married a skilled draftsman and became a highly respected figure on one of the most prosperous blocks in South Philadelphia.†
Chpt 2 *
- In America's less hierarchical society, there has never been an official or socially imposed standard as there is in Britain, where the public schools (actually private, fee-paying schools) were set up in the nineteenth century to teach the sons of prosperous tradesmen to speak with a cultivated accent, like the sons of the aristocracy, who went to Eton.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
successful or good -- especially with regard to finances or wealth