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Definition of Palmy
1. Adjective. Very lively and profitable. "Did a thriving business in orchids"
Similar to: Successful
Derivative terms: Prosperity
Definition of Palmy
1. a. Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.
Definition of Palmy
1. Adjective. Of, related to, or covered with palm trees. ¹
2. Adjective. Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palmy
1. marked by prosperity [adj PALMIER, PALMIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmy
Literary usage of Palmy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1804)
"... Illyrian horse of Aurelian were unable to sustain the ponderous charge of
their antagonists. They fled in real or affected disorder, engaged the palmy- ..."
2. Songs for the Chapel: A Series of Historical Sketches, Memoirs and Records by Ambrose White Vernon, Alvin Howard Sanders, Charles Henry Morse (1900)
"... V. palmy DAYS AT KILLERBY AND WAR- LABY. The establishment of the Yorkshire
and Royal Shows (1838-9) proved the means of attracting largely-increased ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"I say, palmy, it is find dat you hab two feets—dat you eats all you can grab,"
... He had clearly taken offence, as palmy evidently expected he would do; ..."
4. Life and Art of Joseph Jefferson: Together with Some Account of His Ancestry by William Winter (1893)
"... MEMORIALS OUR STAGE IN ITS palmy DAYS UPON the state of the stage in America,
early in the nineteenth century, — viewing it as an institution existing ..."
5. Plays and Players by Laurence Hutton (1875)
"THE palmy DAYS OF THE DRAMATIC PAST. " And tell old tales and laugh." King Lear,
Act V. Sc. 3. POETS have never rhymed of old play bills, nor do minstrels ..."
6. Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights by Alexander Woollcott (1922)
"... about back-stage to see from what sources and by what accidents a play may
chance to take its final form in New York. The story of "palmy Days" does ..."
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