FLOURISH

flourish, fanfare, tucket

(noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; “he entered to a flourish of trumpets”; “her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare”

flourish, brandish

(noun) the act of waving

flourish

(noun) a display of ornamental speech or language

flourish

(noun) a showy gesture; “she entered with a great flourish”

flourish

(noun) an ornamental embellishment in writing

boom, thrive, flourish, expand

(verb) grow vigorously; “The deer population in this town is thriving”; “business is booming”

brandish, flourish, wave

(verb) move or swing back and forth; “She waved her gun”

thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

flourish (third-person singular simple present flourishes, present participle flourishing, simple past and past participle flourished)

(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.

(intransitive) To prosper or fare well.

(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.

(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

(transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.

(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

Noun

flourish (plural flourishes)

A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

An ornamentation.

(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.

(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

Anagrams

• rushfoil

Source: Wiktionary

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Flour"ish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flourished; p. pr. & vb. n. Flourishing.] Etym: [OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish.]

1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

2. 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. When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. xcii 7 Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then. Tennyson.

3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus Shak.

7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope.

Flour"ish, v. t.

1. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [Obs.] Fenton.

2. 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. [Obs.] Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit. Shak.

3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Shak.

4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [Obs.] Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps flourished into large works. Bacon.

Flour"ish, n.; pl. Flourishes (.

1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic] The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. Howell.

2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

3. 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 wordas, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden.

4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle.

5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! Shak.

6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the fluorish of a sword.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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