Flourish



noun — Plural: Flourishes
1.
(ornament, a fanciful stroke of the pen thriving, vigorous) flourish of a sword ការគ្រវី, flourish of a pen ការសរសេរយ៉ាងគ្រវីគ្រវាត់ verbal flourish សំដីពិរោះក្បោះក្បាយ, flourishing trade ជំនួញចម្រើនល្អ
verbpast tense: flourished ; past participle: flourished ; present participle: flourishing ;
1.
(បច្ចេកទេស) លូតលាស់, រីកចម្រើនល្អ
2.
(TRANSITIVE) (to brandish, display, to wave or swing about in the air, to decorate with flowery ornament or with florid diction) flourish a sword គ្រវី, flourish one's letters សរសេរគ្រវីគ្រវាត់
Example: Because of his hard work, Dick's business flourished, and he was soon employing twenty peopl
3.
(INTRANSITIVE) (to thrive, to use florid language) business flourish ចម្រើនបានល្អ, crops flourish លូតលាស់ល្អ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Flourishes
1.
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
2.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
3.
Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
4.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
5.
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
6.
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
verbpast tense: flourished ; past participle: flourished ; present participle: flourishing ;
1.
(TRANSITIVE) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
2.
(INTRANSITIVE) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
3.
(INTRANSITIVE) 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.
4.
(INTRANSITIVE) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
5.
(INTRANSITIVE) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
6.
(INTRANSITIVE) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
7.
(INTRANSITIVE) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
8.
(TRANSITIVE) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
9.
(TRANSITIVE) 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.
10.
(TRANSITIVE) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
1.
burgeon, flower, grow, increase, luxuriate, prosper, thrive
2.
brandish, display, flaunt, gesture, parade, vaunt, wave
3.
adorn, decorate
1.
To boast, to vaunt, to brag