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conflagrations

conflagrations is the plural of conflagration.

Meaning of conflagration

Noun

conflagration (countable and uncountable, plural conflagrations)

  1. A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
    • It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.
    Synonyms:
    firestorm, inferno
  2. (figuratively) 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
  3. (figuratively) 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

Questions about conflagrations

What is conflagrations the plural of?
Conflagrations is the plural of conflagration.

Words near conflagrations in the dictionary

  1. conflagrate
  2. conflagrated
  3. conflagrates
  4. conflagrating
  5. conflagration
  6. conflagrations
  7. conflagrative
  8. conflagrator
  9. conflagrators
  10. conflagratory
  11. Conflans-Sainte-Honorine

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