conflagration
/ˌkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/
conflagration noun: a large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
Noun
conflagration (countable and uncountable, plural conflagrations)
- A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
- It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.
- And back to hell his way did he take, / For the Devil thought by a slight mistake / It was general conflagration.1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 87
- A large-scale conflict.
- This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of...1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
- A situation of great passion or emotion.
- I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.1876, The New York Drama, volumes 1-2, page 1
conflagration meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
conflagration in Hindi
- a large, ferocious, and destructive fire
- आग āg, अग्निकांड agnikāṇḍ
conflagration in Tamil
- அழிவை உண்டாக்கும் பெருந்தீ
conflagration in Urdu
- a large, ferocious, and destructive fire
- آگ āg
conflagration in Bengali
- conflagration, a devastating fire that burns houses and other properties
- অগ্নিকাণ্ড ognikanḍo
- conflagration
- অগ্নিদাহ ôgnidahô
More languagesFewer languages
- conflagration in Malayalam
- കൊടും തീയ്, വലിയ അഗ്നിബാധ, മൊത്തമായ തീപിടിത്തം
- conflagration in Kannada
- ದಳ್ಳುರಿ, ಮಹಾಜ್ವಾಲೆ, ಹೆಗ್ಗಿಚ್ಚು, ದೊಡ್ಡ ಬೆಂಕಿಯುರಿ
- conflagration in Tagalog
- sunog
- conflagration in Arabic
- حَرِيق ḥarīq
- conflagration in Malay
- kebakaran
- conflagration in Indonesian
- kebakaran
- conflagration in Persian
- آتشسوزی âtaš-suzi
- conflagration in Thai
- ไฟไหม้ fai-mâi, เพลิงไหม้, อัคคีภัย àk-kii-pai
- conflagration in Vietnamese
- hỏa hoạn, nạn cháy lớn
- conflagration in Myanmar
- မီး mi:
Synonyms of conflagration
Forms of conflagration
| plural | conflagrations |
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Origin of conflagration
From Middle French, from Latin cōnflagrātiō (“burning, conflagration”).
Words formed from conflagration
Words that rhyme with conflagration
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about conflagration
- What does conflagration mean?
- Conflagration means a large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
- What is conflagration in Hindi?
- Conflagration in Hindi is आग (āg), अग्निकांड (agnikāṇḍ). See Conflagration meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conflagration?
- Conflagration is a noun.
- How do you pronounce conflagration?
- Conflagration is pronounced /ˌkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of conflagration?
- The plural of conflagration is conflagrations.
Words near conflagration in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: conflagration (page history and authors); conflagration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অগ্নিকাণ্ড (Bengali) (page history and authors); conflagration (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conflagration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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