Noun flourish has 5 senses
  1. flourish - a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
    --1 is a kind of
    gesture, motion
  2. flourish - an ornamental embellishment in writing
    --2 is a kind of
    embellishment
    --2 has particulars: paraph
  3. flourish - a display of ornamental speech or language
    --3 is a kind of
    grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
  4. flourish, brandish - the act of waving
    --4 is a kind of wave, waving, wafture
    Derived form: verb flourish3
  5. flourish, fanfare, tucket - (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
    --5 is a kind of tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
,Verb flourish has 3 senses
  1. boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish, expand - grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
    --1 is one way to grow
    Sample sentence:
    The business is going to flourish
  2. thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish - gain in wealth
    --2 is one way to change state, turn
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  3. brandish, flourish, wave - move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
    --3 is one way to move, displace
    Derived form: noun flourish4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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