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flower

flower

104 5.4
Period when a person or thing is at its best
  • noun
  • /ˈflaʊər/
  • Literature
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  • The artist's talent reached its full flower when she completed her masterpiece.
  • in full flower
  • come into full flower

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The company's innovative approach showed its flower during a record year of profits.

  • The festival was the flower of our summer, bringing joy and excitement to the entire community.

Synonyms

peak
vsflower
368 2.1

The highest point something reaches, like a mountain or an achievement

is a broader period of greatest prosperity rather than a single point
prime
vsflower
54 5.0

The time in life when a person is most active and successful

is the general label for the best part, not only life stages
heyday
vsflower
31 5.8

A time when someone or something is most successful

is wider, covering prosperity or productivity beyond public fame
bloom
vsflower
16 3.2

A time when a person or thing is at its best

is broader and can stress productivity and development beyond beauty
blossom
vsflower
7 4.1

A time when something is most successful or active

is the broader name for the same prime period rather than that specific stage
full bloom
vsflower
6 3.0

A plant with its flowers fully open and very beautiful

is the figurative term used for general prosperity or prime time
blossoming
vsflower
4 2.5

A time when flowers open and plants become full of blooms

is the noun for the resulting prime period rather than the development
flowering
vsflower
  • Literature
3 5.8

A period of great growth and achievement in art or culture

is more general, applying to any area of greatest prosperity or productivity
flush
vsflower
3 7.1

A period of time with much success or abundance

is the general term for any prime period, not only intense bursts
efflorescence
vsflower
  • Literature
9.9

A time when something grows strongly and reaches its best stage

is the everyday phrase for the same era rather than literary usage

Antonyms

439 3.9

A gradual loss in amount, quality, or value

Idioms

7.3

A person who is the best or most admired in a group

Compounds

14 1.0

A part of a garden where people plant flowers

7 2.1

A young girl who walks before the bride at a wedding and drops flower petals

A group of flowers put together to look attractive

A garden where people grow many flowers for beauty

flower child
  • Archaic
5 6.8

A young person, especially in the 1960s, who rejects normal values and supports peace and living simply with others

flower petal
  • Specialized
3 1.0

A soft, usually bright part of a flower

1 1.0

A shop that sells flowers and small plants

1 1.0

A small part on a plant that will become a flower, not a leaf

flower head
  • Specialized
1 3.0

A tight group of small flowers that look like one flower

1 1.3

A flower that grows naturally without being planted by people

A flower made from plastic, silk, or paper that looks like a real one

flower girl
  • Archaic
1 3.4

A person who sells flowers on the street

flower people
  • Archaic
1 8.6

People from the 1960s who believed in peace, love, and living together

flower power
  • Archaic
1 6.6

A youth movement in the 1960s that promoted peace, love and no violence

1 3.3

An upright stem that grows from the ground and holds a flower above the leaves

flower cluster
  • Specialized
1 2.7

A group of flowers that grow close together on a plant

hothouse flower
  • Offensive
1 8.9

A person who is very protected and cannot deal with hard situations

1 4.4

A climbing plant with hard stems and bright thin parts that look like paper and decorate gardens

9.1

A plant that lives for one year with purple, basket-like flower heads used to decorate gardens

A tropical plant with bright orange-red flowers that often grows as a weed

A tall plant from eastern North America with dense spikes of blue flowers

A plant with bright yellow, red or purple flowers often grown in gardens

A small wild flower with bright yellow shiny petals

butterfly flower
  • Specialized
8.2

A small garden plant with thin divided leaves and bright flowers with different colours

A shrub or small tree with clusters of pink flowers streaked with purple

A climbing plant with bright yellow flowers like a canary

A tall North American plant with bright red flowers that grows in wet places

carrion flower
  • Specialized
9.9

A fleshy plant without leaves that has large star-shaped flowers that smell like rotting meat and attract flies

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

compass flower
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant whose leaves point north and south

corkscrew flower
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical vine with bright yellow and purple flowers whose petals twist like a snail shell

8.2

A small tree or shrub with wrinkled bright flowers often planted in warm gardens

cushion flower
  • Australian
9.9

A tall shrub from Western Australia with large round red and yellow flowers

8.0

A wild plant with pink or white flowers that grows in damp meadows

A short, hairy plant that comes back every year and has blue-violet or lilac flowers in early spring

apetalous flower
  • Specialized
9.8

A flower with no petals

A plant that lives for many years with white to pink puffed flowers in long clusters on upright stems

A poisonous woody evergreen vine with sweet-smelling yellow flowers shaped like funnels in the southeastern United States

A flower that keeps its shape and color after drying for decoration

A garden plant with feathery leaves and blue or white flowers

fiesta flower
  • Specialized
9.9

A small wild plant with deep purple flowers that grows in California

fire flower
  • Jargon
8.0

A game item that lets a character throw fireballs at enemies

finger-flower
  • Archaic
9.9

A tall plant with large pink-purple tube flowers whose leaves are poisonous but make heart medicine

Growing and caring for plants that have flowers to make a place look nice

flower of youth
  • Archaic
7.5

A time in youth when a person has the most energy and hope

A young boy who walks in a wedding scattering petals

flower boy
  • Informal
7.6

A young man admired for soft, pretty looks and stylish clothes, often in fashion or pop culture

A string of flowers worn or hung for decoration

flower-cup fern
  • Specialized
9.8

A slender plant with shiny brown stalks and divided leaves with small brown dots along the edges

flower-of-an-hour
  • Specialized
9.9

A small plant with yellow flowers that open in the morning and fade by midday

8.8

A desert plant with thick roots and narrow succulent leaves, each stem having one reddish-orange flower

A garden plant with long grasslike leaves and tall spikes of red or yellow drooping flowers

9.9

A plant from the US Southwest with fleshy roots and a single red-orange flower

A tall garden plant with long grasslike leaves and red or yellow hanging flower spikes

A tropical plant with a bright red, heart-shaped flower used for decoration

A low plant from Central America that grows along the ground and has frilly white flowers

A climbing plant with thick, leather-like outer parts and bell-shaped blooms

A garden plant with deep pink, drooping heart-shaped flowers

marcescent flower
  • Specialized
9.9

A flower that wilts but stays on the plant

A pink forest flower shaped like a slipper

mist-flower
  • Specialized
8.9

A plant that lives for many years with large bright blue flower clusters that attract butterflies

A low evergreen shrub often grown in gardens for its sweet-smelling pink or deep rose flowers

gand flower
  • Archaic
9.9

A small European plant with many branches and blue or pink flowers

A plant with round yellow flowers

guinea flower
  • Australian
9.9

A vine that stays green all year with large bright yellow flowers

A garden plant with hanging bell-shaped flowers that are purple and white in a checkered pattern

9.9

A poisonous plant with hooded blue-purple flowers that grows in northern Europe

honey-flower
  • Australian
9.1

An Australian shrub with groups of sweet flowers that attract bees and birds

A plant from the southwestern United States with narrow leaves and yellow-orange flowers

A climbing plant that has shiny green leaves and clusters of white fragrant flowers shaped like trumpets

A Mediterranean herb with strong seeds used to flavor bread and vegetables

proboscis flower
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant with large spotted flowers and a long curved beak-shaped flower part

How Prosperous

flower
  • Literature
104 5.4
growth
1.6
stability
363 3.1
decline
439 3.9

Surface Forms

flower singular
flowers plural

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.