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Meaning of floruit | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt

Definitions

The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.

Equivalents

Suomi kukoistus kukoistuskausi
Nederlands bloei bloeiperiode bloeitijd

Examples

“Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not known, a floruit can be estimated on the basis of what is known about an individual's career.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

florula Flory Flory-Fox equation Florya floryshe flos-ferri

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