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FLOURISHING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very lively and profitable
Example:
did a thriving business in orchids
Synonyms:
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving
Classified under:
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb flourish
Context examples:
From the distant camp of Dax, too, and from Blaye, Bourge, Libourne, St. Emilion, Castillon, St. Macaire, Cardillac, Ryons, and all the cluster of flourishing towns which look upon Bordeaux as their mother, there thronged an unceasing stream of horsemen and of footmen, all converging upon the great city.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For, said he, as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from abroad.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But now, thanks to my good old aunt, who loved me better than I ever deserved, I'm rich, at least I feel so, and we can live at Plumfield perfectly well, if we have a flourishing school.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
