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1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. New York stood at the confluence of two rivers. Bancroft. 2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting

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1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. New York stood at the confluence of two rivers. Bancroft. 2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage. You see this confluence, this great flood of vistors. Shak. The confluence . . . of all true joys. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to CONFLUENCE)

  • MEETER
    One who meets.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • RUNNINGLY
    In a running manner.
  • MEETEN
    To render fit.
  • MEETH
    , Mead. See Meathe. Chaucer.
  • STOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Stand.
  • MEETINGHOUSE
    A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
  • PLACENTA
    The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
  • FLOW
    imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.
  • UNDERSTOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Understand.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • SEJUNCTION
    The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined. Bp. Pearson.
  • WATCH MEETING
    A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.

 

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