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1. Grow vigorously
   "business is flourishing";
   - boom, thrive, expand
    
2. Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
   "The new student is flourishing";
   - thrive, prosper, fly high, bloom, flower
    
3. Move or swing back and forth
   "She flourished her gun";
   - brandish, wave

1. A showy gesture
   "she entered with a great flourish"
    
2. An ornamental embellishment in writing
    
3. A display of ornamental speech or language
    
4. The act of waving
   - brandish
    
5. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
   "he entered to a flourish of trumpets";
   - fanfare, tucket

Derived forms: flourished, flourishing, flourishes

Type of: air, change state, displace, embellishment, gesture, grandiloquence, grandiosity, grow, line, magniloquence, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, motion, move, ornateness, rhetoric, strain, tune, turn, wafture, wave, waving

Encyclopedia: Flourish