1. Grow vigorously
   "business is flourishing";
   - boom, thrive, expand
    
2. Develop or succeed exceptionally well
   "The new student is flourishing";
   - thrive, prosper, fly high, flower, bloom
    
3. Move or swing back and forth
   "The conductor flourished his baton";
   - brandish, wave

1. A showy gesture
   "she entered with a great flourish"
    
2. An ornamental embellishment in writing
   "The calligrapher added a flourish to each signature"
    
3. A display of ornamental speech or language
   "The orator ended his speech with a rhetorical flourish"
    
4. The act of waving
   "His flourish of the sword intimidated the attackers";
   - brandish
    
5. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
   "he entered to a flourish of trumpets";
   - fanfare, tucket [archaic]

Derived forms: flourished, flourishes, flourishing

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, Mighty Land