flourish
Significado
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- To thrive or grow well.
- To prosper or fare well.
- To be in a period of greatest influence.
- To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
- To brandish (a weapon).
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/
Etimoloxía
From Middle English floryschen, from Old French florir (via the arrhizotonic stem floriss-), from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, from Latin flōrem (“flower”, noun). Corresponds to flower + -ish.
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