flourish
flourish - English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/, /ˈflɝ.ɪʃ/
- (hypercorrection) IPA: /ˈflʊɹ.ɪʃ/
Verb
flourish (third-person singular simple present flourishes, present participle flourishing, simple past and past participle flourished)
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- The barley flourished in the warm weather.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
- The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- His writing flourished before the war.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
- The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Synonyms
- See also prosper
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Noun
flourish (plural flourishes)
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
- An ornamentation.
- His signature ended with a flourish.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
- The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
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