What part of speech is flourish?

Flourish can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. flourish is a verb, present, 1st person singular of flourish (infinitive).
  • 2. flourish is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. flourish is a noun, singular of flourishes.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does flourish mean?

Definitions

Verb

flourish - To thrive or grow well.
flourish - To prosper or fare well.
flourish - To be in a period of greatest influence.
flourish - To make bold, sweeping movements with.

Noun

flourish - the act of waving
flourish - (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
flourish - an ornamental embellishment in writing
flourish - a display of ornamental speech or language
flourish - a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

Examples of flourish

#   Sentence  
1. noun He entered to a flourish of trumpets.
2. noun She entered with a great flourish.
3. verb Remain calm and confident, and love is very likely to flourish in 2005.
4. verb Legends of vampires flourish in the Balkans.
5. verb For how long did the Maya culture flourish?
6. verb When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.
7. verb Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
8. verb Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
9. verb How long did the Maya culture flourish?
10. verb Our work began to flourish.
11. verb A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
12. verb Without truth, without trust, America cannot flourish. Trust is at the very heart of our democracy, the sacred covenant between a president and the people. When that trust is violated, the bonds that hold our republic together begin to weaken.
13. verb Within national marine sanctuaries's protected waters, giant humpback whales breed and calve their young, temperate reefs flourish, and shipwrecks tell stories of our maritime history.
14. verb If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.
15. verb We sometimes live for three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here, we become only foam on the surface of the water and have not even a grave among those we love. We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; like the green seaweed when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have souls which live forever, even after the body has been turned to dust. They rise up through the clear, pure air, beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see.
16. verb Rain helps plants and food crops flourish, and it keeps grasslands green and lush.
17. verb Algeria will flourish.
Sentence  
noun
He entered to a flourish of trumpets.
She entered with a great flourish.
verb
Remain calm and confident, and love is very likely to flourish in 2005.
Legends of vampires flourish in the Balkans.
For how long did the Maya culture flourish?
When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
How long did the Maya culture flourish?
Our work began to flourish.
A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
Without truth, without trust, America cannot flourish. Trust is at the very heart of our democracy, the sacred covenant between a president and the people. When that trust is violated, the bonds that hold our republic together begin to weaken.
Within national marine sanctuaries's protected waters, giant humpback whales breed and calve their young, temperate reefs flourish, and shipwrecks tell stories of our maritime history.
If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.
We sometimes live for three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here, we become only foam on the surface of the water and have not even a grave among those we love. We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; like the green seaweed when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have souls which live forever, even after the body has been turned to dust. They rise up through the clear, pure air, beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see.
Rain helps plants and food crops flourish, and it keeps grasslands green and lush.
Algeria will flourish.

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