Conflagration Definition

kŏnflə-grāshən
conflagrations
noun
conflagrations
A big, destructive fire.
Webster's New World
(figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
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Noun

Singular:
conflagration
Plural:
conflagrations

Origin of Conflagration

  • Latin cōnflagrātiō cōnflagrātiōn- from cōnflagrātus past participle of cōnflagrāre to burn up conflagrant

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French, from Latin cōnflagrātiō (“burning, conflagration”).

    From Wiktionary

Conflagration Sentence Examples

  • Fleury hardly had time to breathe before a new conflagration broke out in the east.

  • It suffered severely from a conflagration in 1870.

  • The situation, however, being in many ways inconvenient, and a conflagration having destroyed the shops at Makaryev, the fair was transferred in 1817 to its present locality at Nizhniy-Novgorod.

  • The only survivors of the flood, and of the conflagration that followed it, were an old man and a pumpkin-seed.

  • A great number of people crowded in front of the conflagration.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

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NONION

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