# flourishing

Pronunciation: say "FLUR-i-shing" US /ˈflɝɪʃɪŋ/, UK /ˈflʌɹɪʃɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Growing well, thriving, and steadily prospering.
   - Simple: Growing strongly and doing very well.
   - _The flourishing port city attracted merchants from across the region._
   - _Decades of investment produced a flourishing tech sector in the area._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of flourish. — present participle and gerund of flourish
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of flourish. Use it after "is" or "are," or to name the action.
   - _Trade was flourishing along the coast during that century._
   - _The arts are flourishing under the new funding program._

## Noun

3. An act or moment of thriving or coming into full growth.
   - Simple: A time of growing and doing very well.
   - _The festival marked a flourishing of local craft and trade._
   - _Critics noted a sudden flourishing of experimental cinema in that era._
4. A bold, sweeping movement, often of the hand or a held object.
   - Simple: A big, sweeping movement of the hand or body.
   - _The waiter presented the dish with a theatrical flourishing of the silver lid._
   - _With a single flourishing of the conductor's baton, the orchestra fell silent._
5. The period during which a person or movement stood at the height of their influence.
   - Simple: The time when someone or something was most active and powerful.
   - _Most scholars place the poet's flourishing in the mid-fourteenth century._
   - _The school of philosophy reached its flourishing under his leadership._
6. The act of brandishing a weapon by waving it about in the air.
   - Simple: The act of waving a weapon around in the air.
   - _The knight's flourishing of his blade signaled the start of the duel._
   - _The flourishing of knives outside the stadium led to six arrests._
7. An act of boasting or bragging.
   - Simple: Loud bragging or showing off.
   - _Her letter was full of flourishing about her family's wealth and connections._
   - _Voters soon grew tired of the senator's flourishing about his own record._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/flourishing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).