flourish

7 definitions • 9 examples

to grow or develop successfully:

My tomatoes are flourishing this summer - it must be the warm weather.

Watercolour painting began to flourish in Britain around 1750.

to move something in your hand in order to make people look at it:

She came in smiling, flourishing her exam results.

If you do something with a flourish, you do it with one big, noticeable movement:

The waiter handed me the menu with a flourish.

to grow or develop successfully:

Parts of the city continue to flourish.

This is the perfect environment for our company to flourish and expand in.

to move something in your hand in order to make people look at it:

She ran up to her father, flourishing her diploma.

a big, noticeable movement:

I pulled into the driveway with a flourish .

to be successful, for example, by making a lot of money or developing quickly:

Thanks to a lot of effort and the support of local people, the business flourished.