Antonyms for clover

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kloh-ver

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkloʊ vər

Definition of clover

Origin : 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].

As in prosperity : noun affluence, good fortune
As in riches : noun money and possessions
As in success : noun favorable outcome
As in wealth : noun money, resources
As in bed of roses : noun comfortable situation
As in easy street : noun financial security
As in good life : noun life of ease
As in life of Riley : noun easy life
As in prosperousness : noun prosperity

Example sentences :

The deep roots of the clover penetrated the soil, that no plow ever touched.
Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley

The flat fields glowed with rich crops of grain, roots, and clover.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 » by Various

They were irrigated, and had been sown and re-sown with timothy grass and clover.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

And he lies down on his back in a field of clover, and stares up at the sky.
Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer

Hence his crop “rotation,” his succession of wheat to clover, of grass to both.
Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various

The standard rotation of crops is tobacco, wheat, clover, tobacco.
Extract from : « The Negro Farmer » by Carl Kelsey

The next morning the bread and butter will have the flavor of clover.
Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

Among those in common use are clover, rose and the nasturtium.
Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

We must hurry, else the does will have left the leverets and gone to feed in the clover.
Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees

Look at yonder wheat: see that clover, and the meadow beyond it.
Extract from : « The O'Donoghue » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for clover

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