clover

as inprosperity
as inriches
as insuccess
as inwealth
as inbed of roses
as ineasy street
as ingood life
as inlife of Riley
as inprosperousness

Antonyms for clover

Word Origin & History

Old English clafre, clæfre "clover," from Proto-Germanic *klaibron (cf. Old Saxon kle, Middle Low German klever, Middle Dutch claver, Dutch klaver, Old High German kleo, German Klee "clover"), of uncertain origin.

Klein and Liberman write that it is probably from West Germanic *klaiwaz- "sticky pap" (see clay), and Liberman adds, "The sticky juice of clover was the base of the most popular sort of honey." First reference in English to the suposed luck of a four-leaf clover is from c.1500. To be in clover "live luxuriously" is 1710, "clover being extremely delicious and fattening to cattle" [Johnson].

Example Sentences forclover

The deep roots of the clover penetrated the soil, that no plow ever touched.

The flat fields glowed with rich crops of grain, roots, and clover.

They were irrigated, and had been sown and re-sown with timothy grass and clover.

And he lies down on his back in a field of clover, and stares up at the sky.

Hence his crop “rotation,” his succession of wheat to clover, of grass to both.

The standard rotation of crops is tobacco, wheat, clover, tobacco.

The next morning the bread and butter will have the flavor of clover.

Among those in common use are clover, rose and the nasturtium.

We must hurry, else the does will have left the leverets and gone to feed in the clover.

Look at yonder wheat: see that clover, and the meadow beyond it.

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More words related to clover

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easy street

good life

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prosperousness