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Definition: Flourishing |
FlourishingAdjective1. Having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population". 2. Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flourishing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: FlourishingSynonyms: booming (adj), growing (adj), palmy (adj), prospering (adj), prosperous (adj), roaring (adj), thriving (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flourishing |
| English words defined with "flourishing": Flourishingly, Frim ♦ genus Titanosaurus, Golden Age, greenness ♦ patronised, patronized ♦ Titanosaurus, To cut a curlycue ♦ verdancy, verdure, Vernant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flourishing": filk ♦ ghost ♦ Paruah ♦ SCIMETAR. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hollywood is full of criminals whose careers are flourishing. (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger) | |
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 | Shenandoah Valley. Braden and Van Fossen Works,a flourishing shop outside of Staunton, which does such heavy work as machining different rock crusher shafts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Worker of J.E. Goode and Sons, Harrisonburg, takes time out for relaxation. This is one of the flourishing shops in the Valley. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | For Marius to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years |
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Business | In the ’60's and ’70's, the automobile market in Cote d’Ivoire was flourishing following a very dynamic Ivoirian economy. (references) | |
For this reason computer security is now a huge industry and is growing in tandem with the flourishing e-commerce activity. (references) | ||
Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Timberland, Ralph Lauren have existing stores in this area and their presence in the UK is flourishing. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Lebanon | The Government generally respects academic freedom, and the country has a flourishing private educational system (a result of inadequate public schools and a preference for religious community affiliation). (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | Meanwhile, petty corruption appears to be flourishing. (references) |
France | The year 2000 has been flourishing for the recruitment sector. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The abundant fruits of another year have blessed our country with plenty and with the means of a flourishing commerce. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonored and depopulated flourishing kingdoms. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Among the unequivocal indications of our national prosperity is the flourishing state of our finances. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Connected with the condition of the finances and the flourishing state of the country in all its branches of industry, it is pleasing to witness the advantages which have been already derived from the recent laws regulating the value of the gold coinage. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | Though not altogether exempt from embarrassments that disturb our tranquility at home and threaten it abroad, yet in all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our flourishing progress has been marked by price stability that is unequalled in the world. |
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| "Flourishing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 53.71% of the time. "Flourishing" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 53.71% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.43% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.42% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 229 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "flourishing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Florentina | Female, Male | Ancient Roman | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Paruah | N/A | Biblical | Flourishing |
| Floris | Female, Male | Dutch | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Flo | Female, Male | English | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florence | Female, Male | English | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florentina | Female, Male | English | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florrie | Female, Male | English | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Flossie | Female, Male | English | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florence | Female, Male | French | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Fiorenza | Female, Male | Italian | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Fiorenzo | Female, Male | Italian | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florentina | Female, Male | Italian | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florencio | Female, Male | Portuguese | To be prosperous and flourishing |
| Florencio | Female, Male | Spanish | To be prosperous and flourishing |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "flourishing": already-flourishing. | |
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| Language | Translations for "flourishing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në lulëzim (abloom, bloomy, blown), i shëndetshëm (bonny, fit, Hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, lush, lusty, salubrious, sleek, sound, upstanding, viable, well fed, wholesome), i mbarë (auspicious, favorable, favourable, felicitous), i lulëzuar (flowering, palmy, prosperous, thriving), i begatë (affluent, flush, fulsome, luxuriant, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, wealthy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مزدهر (flowered, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thrifty, thriving), عامر مزدهر, باهي (bright, brilliant, glaring, rich). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | як (brawny, chopping, fast, fit, grunting ox, hard, husky, iron, lusty, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stocky, stout, sturdy, thickset, tough, two-fisted, vigorous, yak), разцвет (bloom, blow, florescence, flowering, heyday, meridian, noon, pride, prime, springtime, summer, zenith), размахване (flirt, flourish, waft, whisk), цъфтеж (bloom, blow, flower, flowering, inflorescence), цветущ (palmy, well-liking), туш, виреене, здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), благоденствуващ (affluent, prosperous), преуспяващ (auspicious, blooming, thrifty, thriving, up and coming), преуспяване (prosperity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 茂盛 (flourish, Flourished, Flourishes), 蕃 (to reproduce), 蕻 (budding), 蓬勃 (full of vitality, vigorous), 發達 (developed, to develop), 繁華 (bustling), 盛 (contain, pick up with a utensil, to hold, to ladle), 旺 (prosperous, to flourish, to prosper), 殷 (dark red, dynasty, roll of thunder), 勃 (abruptly, prosperous, suddenly). (various references) | |
Czech | kvetoucí (abloom, blooming, florid, flowering). (various references) | |
Finnish | rehevä (lush, luxuriant, rank), kukoistava (blooming, thriving), kukkea (fresh, rosy). (various references) | |
French | florissant (florid). (various references) | |
German | blühend (blooming), aufblühend (blooming, efflorescent). (various references) | |
Greek | που ανθεί, ακμαίοσ, ανθηρόσ (blooming, florescent, florid, flowery). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משגשג (blooming, efflorescent, on velvet, palmy, proliferating, prosperous), שגשוג (boom, growth, heyday, proliferation, prosperity, success, well being), פורח (blooming, flush), פריחה (bloom, blossom, flowering, prosperity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágzó (blooming, flowery, prime, prosperous, thriving), virágzás (blooming, bloom, flourish), kicsattanó egészségû. (various references) | |
Italian | flòrido (florid), fiorente (blooming, flowering, prosperous, thriving), rigoglioso (luxuriant, rife), prosperoso (florid), prosperità (prosperity, welfare), efflorescente. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 繁盛 (prosperity, thriving). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いくいくたる (aromatic, diffusing of aroma, teeming with culture), りゅうりゅう (bit by bit, muscular, prosperous, style, thriving, workmanship), はんじょう (half mat, heckling, hissing, prosperity, thriving, variegated streaks), はんえい (anti-British, influence, penumbra, prospering, prosperity, reflection, thriving). (various references) | |
Korean | 번영 (Prospering, Prosperity). (various references) | |
Manx | my vlaa (blooming, efflorescent, flowering, flowery, in flower), lane dy vishaghey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | blomstrende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ourishingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | florescente (abloom), próspero (auspicious, bonanza, golden, moneymaking, palmy, prosperous, successful, thrifty, well-off, well-to-do). (various references) | |
Romanian | prosperitate (bonanza, boom, flourish, glory, heyday, prosperity, thriving, weal, welfare, wellbeing), prosper (bonanza, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, thriving, wealthy, well to do), propãşire (prosperity), înfloritor (blooming, lusty, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, thriving), înflorire (blow, efflorescence, florescence, flower, flowering, inflorescence, may, noon, noonday, noontide, pride, prime, prosperity, summer). (various references) | |
Russian | размахивание, здоровый (healthy, lusty), процветающий (thrifty), преуспевающий. (various references) | |
Scottish | fraoidhnidh, ùrar (gay, young), ùr (beautiful, fresh, new, recent, vigorous, young). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rascvetan, napredan (advanced, onward, progressive, prosperous, thriving). (various references) | |
Spanish | floreciente (blooming, florid, flowering, in full bloom). (various references) | |
Swedish | blomstrande (blossoming, prosperous, thriving). (various references) | |
Turkish | mamur, iyi giden, gelişmekte olan, bayındır (built up, cultivated, developed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | квітучий (blooming, blowing, efflorescent, flowered, flowering, full blown, pert, thrifty, well to do, wholesome), процвітаючий (auspicious, prosperous, roaring). (various references) | |
Welsh | llewyrchus (prosperous), brigog (branching), blodeuog (flowery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | vegetabilis. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | floride. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Daniel Chapter 4, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EtouV oktwkaidekatou thV basileiaV naboucodonosor eipen eirhneuwn hmhn en tw oikw mou kai euqhnwn epi tou qronou mou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc ingrediebantur arioli magi Chaldei et aruspices et somnium narravi in conspectu eorum et solutionem eius non indicaverunt mihi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne entriden dyuynours by auters, wicches, Caldeis, and dyuynours by sterris; and I teelde the swenen in the siyt of hem, and thei shewiden not to me the solucioun therof, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house: |
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| Language | Daniel Chapter 4, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ako, si Nabucodonosor, nagpahulay sulod sa akong balay ug nagamauswagon sa akong palacio. |
| Croatian | Doðoše gataoci, èarobnici, zvjezdari i tumaèi znakova: ja im rekoh svoju sanju, a oni mi ne znadoše reæi njezino znaèenje. |
| Danish | Jeg, Nebukadnezar, levede tryg i mit Slot og livsglad i mit Palads. |
| Dutch | Ik, Nebukadnezar, gerust zijnde in mijn huis, en in mijn paleis groenende, |
| Finnish | Silloin tulivat tietäjät, noidat, kaldealaiset ja tähtienselittäjät, ja minä kerroin heille unen, mutta he eivät voineet ilmoittaa minulle sen selitystä. |
| French | Moi, Nebucadnetsar, je vivais tranquille dans ma maison, et heureux dans mon palais. |
| German | Ich, Nebukadnezar, da ich gute Ruhe hatte in meinem Hause und es wohl stand auf meiner Burg, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Mwen menm, Nèbikadneza, mwen t'ap viv alèz lakay mwen. Tout zafè m' t'ap mache byen nan palè a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Aku tinggal dengan sejahtera dalam istanaku dan hidup dengan mewah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa aku ini Nebukadnezar adalah dengan senang dalam rumahku, dengan selamat sentosa dalam istanaku. |
| Korean | 나 느 부 갓 네 살 이 내 집 에 편 히 있 으 며 내 궁 에 서 평 강 할 때 에 |
| Maori | ¶ I te ata noho ahau, a Nepukaneha, i roto i toku whare, koa tonu i roto i toku whare kingi: |
| Norwegian | Jeg, Nebukadnesar, satt i god ro i mitt hus, levde lykkelig i mitt palass. |
| Rumanian | Eu, Nebucadneyar, trqiam liniwtit kn casa mea, wi fericit kn palatul meu. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flourishing": flourishingly. (additional references) | |
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"Flourishing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: florishing, flourishinhg, flurishing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flourishing" (pronounced fler"ishing) |
| 5 | -er" i sh i ng | nourishing. |
| 4 | -i sh i ng | anguishing, accomplishing, admonishing, astonishing, banishing, brandishing, demolishing, diminishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, languishing, lavishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refurbishing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, skirmishing, vanishing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | abolishing, ambushing, bashing, blushing, brainwashing, brushing, cashing, clashing, crashing, crushing, dashing, dishing, fishing, flashing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gnashing, gushing, hashing, lashing, meshing, onrushing, overfishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, refreshing, rehashing, rushing, slashing, sloshing, smashing, splashing, squashing, stashing, tarnishing, thrashing, trashing, unleashing, washing, wishing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: flouring, flourish, fluorins, flushing, foulings, furlongs, hirsling, hurlings, ligroins, lionfish, lungfish, riflings. | |
-4 letters: filings, firings, fishing, florins, fluorin, foiling, fouling, furling, furlong, furnish, girlish, hoising, horsing, housing, hurling, ingulfs, ligroin, longish, louring, lousing, lushing, noirish, nourish, origins, rifling, roguish, roiling, rolfing, rousing, rulings, rushing, shoring, signior, signori, siloing, sirloin, soiling, songful, souring. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: flourishingly. | |
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