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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
flourish
1. a showy gesture (Freq. 1)
- she entered with a great flourish
• Hypernyms:
gesture, motion
2. an ornamental embellishment in writing
• Hypernyms:
embellishment
• Hyponyms:
paraph
3. a display of ornamental speech or language
• Hypernyms:
grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric
4. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- he entered to a flourish of trumpets
- her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare
• Syn:
fanfare, tucket
• Topics:
music
• Hypernyms:
tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line,
line, melodic phrase
5. the act of waving
• Syn:
brandish
• Derivationally related forms:
brandish (for: brandish)
• Hypernyms:
wave, waving, wafture
1. grow vigorously (Freq. 11)
- The deer population in this town is thriving
- business is booming
• Syn:
boom, thrive, expand
• Derivationally related forms:
expansible (for: expand), boom (for: boom)
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Hyponyms:
revive, luxuriate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- The business is going to flourish
2. make steady progress;
be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance (Freq. 1)
- The new student is thriving
• Syn:
thrive, prosper, fly high
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. move or swing back and forth
- She waved her gun
• Syn:
brandish, wave
• Derivationally related forms:
waver (for: wave), brandish (for: brandish)
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
wigwag
• Entailment:
hold, take hold
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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