Flourishes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLOURISHES in dictionary:

VERB:
• FLOURISH, to thrive
• (of a living organism) grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly congenial environment
• develop rapidly and successfully
• wave (something) about to attract attention
• be working or at the height of one's career during a specified period
NOUN:
• a bold or extravagant gesture or action, made especially to attract attention
• an elaborate rhetorical or literary expression.
• an ornamental flowing curve in handwriting or scrollwork
• an impressive and successful act or period
• a fanfare played by brass instruments
• an ornate musical passage.
• an extemporized addition played especially at the beginning or end of a composition.

Words related to FLOURISHES

flourish14 flourished17 flourishing18

Words that contain FLOURISHES

overflourishes23

How to use FLOURISHES in a sentence

• It flourishes well on any free soil, and is an excellent smoke-resisting tree.
• It flourishes, blessed by all, and takes its place among the institutions of civilisation.
• Gambling has been an industrial pursuit since the first settlement of the country, and the saloon business flourishes with the prosperity of the times.
• Flourishes in any soil, and is easily raised from seed sown in spring.
• It must be grown as a bottom-plant, and flourishes only when rooted.
• It flourishes in thickets and open pastures, often with poor soil and scant shade.
• Gaisford, a chestnut-tree fifty-six feet in circumference, which flourishes well, and has had a very good crop of chestnuts for many years.
• Most formal transactions are conducted in hard currency as indigenous bank notes have lost almost all value, and a barter economy now flourishes in all but the largest cities.
• It flourishes best in the neighborhood of Grasse and Cannes.
• In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana.
• I see nothing that shows so enlightened a spirit as the Home, a little germ of good which I hope flourishes and finds active aid in the community.
• A whole subterranean life seemed to be expressing itself in those loud rat-tats, those long rolls and flourishes of drumming.
• Forests abound, especially in Tavastland, whence timber is exported in large quantities, while agriculture flourishes in all these provinces.
• Among these was the Grammar School in the city, which still survives and flourishes, under the name of St.
• As early as 1685 the Hibernian Catch Club was established and still flourishes.
• At last, with more flourishes of folly, he put the note away in his desk and inspected himself in the glass.
• The cinnamon tree flourishes only in a small portion of the island of Ceylon.
• It is grand as showing that our subject flourishes, your book coming to a new edition so soon.
• Metcalf, how are your little charges? How flourishes the birch? METCALF.
• The last-named was much petted by Miss Martineau, and still flourishes in perennial youth on many pages of her books of American travel.

Similar words containing FLOURISHE without suffix s

flourished17 flourisher16 flourishers17 overflourished24 overflourishes23

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