flower
- noun
- /ˈflaʊər/
- Literature
- The artist's talent reached its full flower when she completed her masterpiece.
- in full flower
- come into full flower
Examples
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A nine-year-old boy served as our volunteer tour guide and gave us flowers after showing us his neighborhood treasures.
Academic text (2001) -
Where the nectar of the flowers is found, the fragrant beauty of the flower is refined.
Academic text (2011) -
You are a flower in the garden of humanity.
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May Carrie and Vivian, victims in different ways and in the flower of youth, rest together in peace.
Academic text (2002) -
You know, that's a place that doesn't have zoning, It doesn't have regulation, and it's not exactly the full flower of, you know, of urbanism.
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The company's innovative approach showed its flower during a record year of profits.
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The festival was the flower of our summer, bringing joy and excitement to the entire community.
Synonyms
The highest point something reaches, like a mountain or an achievement
The time in life when a person is most active and successful
A time when someone or something is most successful
A time when a person or thing is at its best
A plant with its flowers fully open and very beautiful
A time when something is most successful or active
A period of time with much success or abundance
A period of great growth and achievement in art or culture
A time when something grows strongly and reaches its best stage
A time when flowers open and plants become full of blooms
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A young person, especially in the 1960s, who rejects normal values and supports peace and living simply with others
- Informal
A young man admired for soft, pretty looks and stylish clothes, often in fashion or pop culture
A tall North American plant with bright red flowers that grows in wet places
A plant that lives for many years with white to pink puffed flowers in long clusters on upright stems
A poisonous plant with hooded blue-purple flowers that grows in northern Europe
A climbing plant with hard stems and bright thin parts that look like paper and decorate gardens
A tropical plant like a small tree with bright yellow or orange-red flowers
- US
A small tree or shrub with wrinkled bright flowers often planted in warm gardens
- US
A colorful plant that grows in marshes with waxy long leaves and pink and white flowers
- Specialized
A fleshy plant without leaves that has large star-shaped flowers that smell like rotting meat and attract flies
A garden plant with round purple or red flowers that smell nice and attract butterflies
- US
A desert plant with thick roots and narrow succulent leaves, each stem having one reddish-orange flower
- Australian
A tropical tree or shrub that has large red and orange flower clusters
- South African
A South African garden plant with bright orange flowers and dark spots
- US
A plant from the US Southwest with fleshy roots and a single red-orange flower
- Indian
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and sweet-smelling night flowers with wavy petals
A deep-water sponge with a delicate, glassy, net-like structure from East Asian waters
A tall plant from eastern North America with dense spikes of blue flowers
- Specialized
A small wild plant with deep purple flowers that grows in California
- Specialized
A small plant with yellow flowers that open in the morning and fade by midday
A plant that lives for one year with purple, basket-like flower heads used to decorate gardens
- Specialized
A small garden plant with thin divided leaves and bright flowers with different colours
A plant that lives for many years with bright orange flowers in the eastern and southern United States
A plant with red leaves like a poinsettia that people use to decorate at Christmas
- Specialized
A tropical vine with bright yellow and purple flowers whose petals twist like a snail shell
- Australian
A tall shrub from Western Australia with large round red and yellow flowers
A short, hairy plant that comes back every year and has blue-violet or lilac flowers in early spring
A poisonous woody evergreen vine with sweet-smelling yellow flowers shaped like funnels in the southeastern United States
- Archaic
A tall plant with large pink-purple tube flowers whose leaves are poisonous but make heart medicine
- Specialized
A slender plant with shiny brown stalks and divided leaves with small brown dots along the edges
A garden plant with long grasslike leaves and tall spikes of red or yellow drooping flowers
A tall garden plant with long grasslike leaves and red or yellow hanging flower spikes
A low plant from Central America that grows along the ground and has frilly white flowers
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Etymology
Flower also came to mean the best or most developed time, like when a plant is in full 'bloom', and this is the same idea behind flourish. So the 'flower' of a person's life or of a city is its prime or greatest time.