Definitions of Flourish [ˈflɜr ɪʃ, ˈflʌr-]

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Definition of 'Flourish'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) flourish
to be in a vigorous state; thrive.

2.  flourish
to be at the height of development, activity, influence, or fame.

3.  flourish
to be successful; prosper.

4.  flourish
to grow luxuriantly or thrive in growth, as a plant.

5.  flourish
to make sweeping gestures.

6. (v.t.) flourish
to brandish dramatically; gesticulate with.

7. (n.) flourish
an act or instance of brandishing.

8.  flourish
an ostentatious or dramatic gesture or display.

9.  flourish
a decoration or embellishment, esp. in writing:
He added a few flourishes to his signature.

10.  flourish
a florid bit of language.

11.  flourish
an elaborate musical passage.

12.  flourish
a condition or period of thriving:
in full flourish.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME florisshen < MF floriss-, long s. of florir&indirdesc; L flōrēre)

Definition of 'Flourish'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flourish
a showy gesture
"she entered with a great flourish"

2. (noun) flourish
an ornamental embellishment in writing

3. (noun) flourish
a display of ornamental speech or language

4. (noun) flourish, brandish
the act of waving

5. (verb) flourish, fanfare, tucket
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
"he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

6. (verb) boom, thrive, flourish, expand
grow vigorously
"The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

7. (verb) thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish
make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
"The new student is thriving"

8. (verb) brandish, flourish, wave
move or swing back and forth
"She waved her gun"

Definition of 'Flourish'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) flourish
to grow well
a plant that will flourish even in poor soil

2. flourish
to do well or be successful
After three years, the company is flourishing.

Definition of 'Flourish'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Flourish
a flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor

2. (noun) Flourish
decoration; ornament; beauty

3. (noun) Flourish
something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit

4. (noun) Flourish
a fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure

5. (noun) Flourish
a fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare

6. (noun) Flourish
the waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword

7. (verb) Flourish
to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive

8. (verb) Flourish
to be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production

9. (verb) Flourish
to use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery

10. (verb) Flourish
to make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion

11. (verb) Flourish
to make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures

12. (verb) Flourish
to execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude

13. (verb) Flourish
to boast; to vaunt; to brag

14. (verb) Flourish
to adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish

15. (verb) Flourish
to embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words

16. (verb) Flourish
to move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish

17. (verb) Flourish
to develop; to make thrive; to expand

Translation of 'Flourish'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to be healthy; to grow well; to thrive My plants are flourishing.
Afrikaans: floreer; gedy	Arabic: يَزْدَهِر، يَنمو	Bulgarian: цъфтя
Brazilian: vicejar	Czech: vzkvétat	German: gedeihen
Danish: trives; blomstre	Greek: ανθώ, αναπτύσσομαι	Spanish: florecer, crecer bien
Estonian: hästi edenema	Farsi: شکفتن؛ رشد کردن	Finnish: kukoistaa
French: être florissant	Hebrew: לְשַׂגשֵׂג	Hindi: फलना-फूलना, स्वस्थ होना
Croatian: cvasti, uspijevati	Hungarian: virul	Indonesian: subur
Icelandic: dafna	Italian: essere fiorente; fiorire	Japanese: 繁茂する
Korean: 번성하다	Lithuanian: vešėti	Latvian: labi augt
Malay: subur	Dutch: floreren	Norwegian: trives, vokse godt, flore
Polish: kwitnąć, rozwijać się	Persian: شکفتن؛ رشد کردن	Pashto: پرمخ تلل، لوییدل
Portuguese: medrar	Romanian: aînflori	Russian: пышно расти
Slovak: prekvitať	Slovenian: cveteti, lepo uspevati	Serbian: bujati
Swedish: frodas	Thai: แข็งแรง	Turkish: gelişmek
Taiwanese: 茂盛	Ukrainian: пишно рости; бути в розкв	Urdu: پھلنا پھولنا
Vietnamese: phát triển mạnh mẽ	Chinese: 茂盛
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