Definitions
1.verbTo thrive or grow well."The barley flourished in the warm weather."
2.verbTo prosper or fare well."The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business."
3.verbTo be in a period of greatest influence."His writing flourished before the war."
4.verbTo develop; to make thrive; to expand.
5.verbTo make bold, sweeping movements with."They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace."
6.verbTo make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
7.verbTo use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
8.verbTo make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
9.verbTo adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
10.verbTo execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
11.verbTo boast; to vaunt; to brag.
12.nounThe action of the verb flourish; flowering.
13.adjectiveGrowing, thriving, doing well"a flourishing economy"