flourish
noun
1. a showy gesture
- she entered with a great flourish
Definition categories: communication, gesture, motion
2. an ornamental embellishment in writing
Definition categories: communication, embellishment
3. a display of ornamental speech or language
Definition categories: communication, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric
4. the act of waving
Similar word(s): brandish
Definition categories: communication, wafture, wave, waving
5. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- he entered to a flourish of trumpets
Similar word(s): fanfare, tucket
Definition categories: communication, air, line, melody, strain, tune
Sentences with flourish as a noun:
- With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
- His signature ended with a flourish.
- The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
verb
1. grow vigorously
Similar word(s): boom, expand, thrive
Definition categories: change, grow
2. make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
Similar word(s): prosper, thrive
Definition categories: possession, turn
3. move or swing back and forth
Similar word(s): brandish, wave
Definition categories: contact, displace, move
Sentences with flourish as a verb:
- The barley flourished in the warm weather.
- The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
- The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
- His writing flourished before the war.
- They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.