flourish

Plural: flourishes

Noun

• a showy gesture
  • "she entered with a great flourish"
• 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
  • "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"
• A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
• An ornamentation.
• A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
• A decorative embellishment on a building.

Verb

Verb Forms: flourished, flourishing, flourishes

• To grow or develop well; to thrive.
• 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
• To thrive or grow well.
• To prosper or fare well.
• To be in a period of greatest influence.
• To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
• To make bold, sweeping movements with.
• To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
• To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
• To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
• To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
• To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
• To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
• To brandish (a weapon).

Examples

• He watched his score flourish as he connected multiple bonus squares.
• His signature ended with a flourish.
• His writing flourished before the war.
• The barley flourished in the warm weather.
• The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
• The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat.
• The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
• The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
• They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
• With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.

Synonyms

boom, brandish, expand, fanfare, fly high, prosper, thrive, tucket, wave

Anagrams of flourish