Word Meanings - CONFLUENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: CONFLUENCE

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.

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• 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.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• 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
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• 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.
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  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
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• 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.
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  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
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  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.