| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Present tense conjugation of the verb flourish.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flourish) |
1. Grow vigorously.[Wordnet]. 2. Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance.[Wordnet]. 3. Move or swing back and forth.[Wordnet]. 4. Grow stronger; "The economy was booming".[Wordnet]. 5. Gain in wealth.[Wordnet]. 6. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.[Websters]. 7. 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.[Websters]. 8. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.[Websters]. 9. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.[Websters]. 10. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.[Websters]. 11. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.[Websters]. 12. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.[Websters]. 13. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.[Websters]. 14. 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.[Websters]. 15. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.[Websters]. 16. To develop; to make thrive; to expand.[Websters]. 17. Base verb from the following inflections: flourishing, flourished, flourishes, flourisher, flourishers, flourishingly and flourishedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. |
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"Flourishes" is a common misspelling or typo for: flourished, flourishers. |
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Date "Flourishes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Ruffles and flourishes | Although roughly equivalent, the US Navy has a different 'Table of Honors' (See http://home.earthlink.net/~mcmillanj/customs/trads.html ) - some civilian officials more, other less; often different musical tunes - and includes in its arsenal of formal Honors one more, which is specific to naval traditions : Sideboys, an even number of Seamen (in this list 8 for guests with quadruple or triple ruffles and flourishes, 6 for lower ranking dignitaries) posted at the bridge when the dignitary boards or leaves the ship, historically to help (or even hoist) him aboard, presently as a ceremonial sort of guard of honour. (references) | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Topics by Level of Interest: FLOURISHES | ||||
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | بَلَجَ (beam, beamed, beaming, beams, dawn), اِزْدَهَرَ (boom, boomed, booming, booms, flourish), عَمُرَ (flourish, flourished, flourishes, flourishing), عَمَرَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, dwell), زَهَرَ (flash, flashed, flashes, flashing, flourish), نَمَا (grow, develop, thrive, developed, developing), تَرَعْرَعَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, flourish). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | بَلَجَ (beam, beamed, beaming, beams, dawn), اِزْدَهَرَ (boom, boomed, booming, booms, flourish), عَمُرَ (flourish, flourished, flourishes, flourishing), عَمَرَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, dwell), زَهَرَ (flash, flashed, flashes, flashing, flourish), نَمَا (grow, develop, thrive, developed, developing), تَرَعْرَعَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, flourish). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | بَلَجَ (beam, beamed, beaming, beams, dawn), اِزْدَهَرَ (boom, boomed, booming, booms, flourish), عَمُرَ (flourish, flourished, flourishes, flourishing), عَمَرَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, dwell), زَهَرَ (flash, flashed, flashes, flashing, flourish), نَمَا (grow, develop, thrive, developed, developing), تَرَعْرَعَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, flourish). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | floresce (flourish, flourishes), floreia (flourish, flourishes), prospera (prosper, prospers, thrive, thrives, flourishes), florescem (flourish, blooms, flourishes). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 繁荣 (booming, prosperous, prosperity, boom, flourish). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | blüht (flourishes, flourish, blooms, blossoms), Schnörkel (flourish, curlicue, flourishes, squiggle, twirl), floriert (prospers, flourish, flourished, flourishes), blüht auf (flourish, flourishes), sie blüht (she flourishes), es blüht (it flourishes, it blossoms), er blüht (he flourishes), einer blüht (one flourishes), das blüht (that flourishes, this flourishes). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | prospère (prosper, prosperous, prospers, flourishing, successful), fleurit (blossoms, flourished, flourishes, blooms, burgeons), éclot (flourishes, opens), brandit (brandishes, flourished, flourishes), il prospère (he prospers, it prospers, he thrives, it thrives, he flourishes), on prospère (one prospers, one thrives, one flourishes), ceci prospère (this prospers, this thrives, this flourishes), elle prospère (she prospers, she thrives, she flourishes), ça prospère (that prospers, this prospers, that thrives, this thrives, that flourishes). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | prospère (prosper, prosperous, prospers, flourishing, successful), fleurit (blossoms, flourished, flourishes, blooms, burgeons), éclot (flourishes, opens), brandit (brandishes, flourished, flourishes), il prospère (he prospers, it prospers, he thrives, it thrives, he flourishes), on prospère (one prospers, one thrives, one flourishes), ceci prospère (this prospers, this thrives, this flourishes), elle prospère (she prospers, she thrives, she flourishes), ça prospère (that prospers, this prospers, that thrives, this thrives, that flourishes). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | blüht (flourishes, flourish, blooms, blossoms), Schnörkel (flourish, curlicue, flourishes, squiggle, twirl), floriert (prospers, flourish, flourished, flourishes), blüht auf (flourish, flourishes), sie blüht (she flourishes), es blüht (it flourishes, it blossoms), er blüht (he flourishes), einer blüht (one flourishes), das blüht (that flourishes, this flourishes). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | بَلَجَ (beam, beamed, beaming, beams, dawn), اِزْدَهَرَ (boom, boomed, booming, booms, flourish), عَمُرَ (flourish, flourished, flourishes, flourishing), عَمَرَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, dwell), زَهَرَ (flash, flashed, flashes, flashing, flourish), نَمَا (grow, develop, thrive, developed, developing), تَرَعْرَعَ (develop, developed, developing, develops, flourish). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | blüht (flourishes, flourish, blooms, blossoms), Schnörkel (flourish, curlicue, flourishes, squiggle, twirl), floriert (prospers, flourish, flourished, flourishes), blüht auf (flourish, flourishes), sie blüht (she flourishes), es blüht (it flourishes, it blossoms), er blüht (he flourishes), einer blüht (one flourishes), das blüht (that flourishes, this flourishes). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | blüht (flourishes, flourish, blooms, blossoms), Schnörkel (flourish, curlicue, flourishes, squiggle, twirl), floriert (prospers, flourish, flourished, flourishes), blüht auf (flourish, flourishes), sie blüht (she flourishes), es blüht (it flourishes, it blossoms), er blüht (he flourishes), einer blüht (one flourishes), das blüht (that flourishes, this flourishes). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | fiorisce (flourishes), attecchisce (catches, flourishes), alligna (flourish, flourishes, thrive, thrives), lui fiorisce (he flourishes), egli fiorisce (he flourishes), lui attecchisce (he catches, he flourishes), lui alligna (he flourishes, he thrives), egli attecchisce (he catches, he flourishes), egli alligna (he flourishes, he thrives). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | 潤色 (rhetorical flourishes, embellishment, embroidery, flourishes, rhetorical), 潤飾 (rhetorical flourishes, rhetorical), 美辞麗句 (flowery words, rhetorical flourishes, flourish, rhetoric, flowery), びじれいく (flowery words, rhetorical flourishes), じゅんしょく (being killed in the line of duty, dying at one's post, rhetorical flourishes). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Norwegian | Snirler (flourishes). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | floresce (flourish, flourishes), floreia (flourish, flourishes), prospera (prosper, prospers, thrive, thrives, flourishes), florescem (flourish, blooms, flourishes), esta floresce (it flourishes), ele floresce (he flourishes), isso floresce (that flourishes), ela floresce (she flourishes), aquela floresce (it flourishes), isto floresce (it flourishes, this flourishes). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | florece (flourish, flourishes), ornamenta (bedeck, bedecks, flourish, flourishes), menea (fidget, fidgets, flourish, flourishes, shake), brota (emanate, emanates, emerge, emerges, flourish), blande (brandishes, flourish, flourishes), arraiga (acclimatize, acclimatizes, flourish, flourishes, take), prospera (prosper, prospers, thrive, thrives, flourishes), eso florece (it flourishes, that flourishes), aquello florece (it flourishes, that flourishes), éste florece (it flourishes, this flourishes). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Turkish | bütün süsleri çıkarmak (prune away all flourishes). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, flourishes. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “flourishes” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Pig Latin | ourishesflay (flourishes). Additional references: Pig Latin, flourishes. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran A | pa tra (a bowl, flourishes). Additional references: Terran A, flourishes. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | floreer (flourish, flourishes). Additional references: Terran B, flourishes. (volunteer) | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor. | Top | |||
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