Usually means: Thrive or grow in abundance.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word flourish:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. flourish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flourish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flourish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flourish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flourish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flourish, flourish: Wordnik
  7. flourish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flourish: Wiktionary
  9. flourish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flourish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flourish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flourish, flourish: Dictionary.com
  13. flourish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flourish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flourish (disambiguation), Flourish (film), Flourish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flourish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flourish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flourish: Rhymezone
  19. flourish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flourish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flourish: Free Dictionary
  22. flourish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flourish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. flourish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flourish: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flourish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flourish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flourish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flourished as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
verb:  (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
verb:  (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
verb:  (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
verb:  (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
verb:  (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
verb:  (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
verb:  (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
verb:  (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To brandish (a weapon).
noun:  A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
noun:  An ornamentation.
noun:  (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
noun:  (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

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