flourish

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/    美 /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/|/ˈflɐɹ.ɪ̟ʃ/|/ˈflɝ.ɪʃ/|/ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
    — With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
  2. An ornamentation.
    — His signature ended with a flourish.
  3. A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
    — The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
  4. A decorative embellishment on a building.
动词 v.
  1. To thrive or grow well. intransitive
    — The barley flourished in the warm weather.
  2. To prosper or fare well. intransitive
    — The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
  3. To be in a period of greatest influence. intransitive
    — His writing flourished before the war.
  4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. transitive
    — But all that I ſhall ſay in this vvhole Argument, vvill be but like Bottomes of Thred, cloſe vvound vp, vvhich vvith a good Needle (perhaps) may be flouriſhed into large VVorkes.
  5. To make bold, sweeping movements with. transitive
    — They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
  6. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. intransitive
    — Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
  7. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions. intransitive
    — They dilate […] and flourish long upon little incidents.
  8. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. intransitive
  9. To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. transitive
    — With shadowy verdure flourish'd high, A sudden youth the groves enjoy.
  10. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. intransitive
    — Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
  11. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. intransitive,obsolete
  12. To brandish (a weapon). archaic,transitive
  13. To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit. intransitive
    — John Smith (flourished 1425-1432) was...

词形变化

flourishes present,singular,third-person flourishing participle,present flourished participle,past flourished past florysh alternative,obsolete floryshe alternative,obsolete flourishes plural florysh alternative,obsolete floryshe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
flourishable flourisher flourishly flourishment flourishy outflourish overflourish reflourish unflourished

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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