Australian English Meaning of flourish
flourish
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Definitions and Meaning of flourish in English
flourish (n)
a showy gesture
an ornamental embellishment in writing
a display of ornamental speech or language
the act of waving
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
flourish (v)
grow vigorously
make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
move or swing back and forth
flourish (v. i.)
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
flourish (v. t.)
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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.
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
flourish (n.)
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
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.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
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flourish
a showy gesture, an ornamental embellishment in writing, a display of ornamental speech or language, the act of waving, (music) a short lively tune played on br
thrive,flourish,prosper,bloom,Bud,flower,Fruit,Germinate,Indulge,overgrow
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flouring => flour, floured => floured, flour weevil => Flour beetle, flour mill => Flour mill, flour corn => Cornflour,
