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A flowing together (as of rivers)
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confluence
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geography , a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. Also known as a conflux , it refers either to the point where a tributary joins a larger river , called the main stem , or where two streams meet to become the source of a river ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: meeting ] a flowing together [syn: conflux , merging ] a coming together of people [syn: concourse ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Late Latin confluentia , from Latin confluentem (nominative confluens ), present participle of confluere "to flow together," from com- "together" (see com- ) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Between 1805 and 1860, traders built posts at every major confluence along the river. ▪ But now it seemed as natural as the confluence of two rivers and needed no words at all. ▪ In some ways, the history of the confluence area ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river. 2 The act of combine which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet. 3 A convergence or combination ...
Usage examples of confluence.
From Delphi the travellers proceeded towards Livadia, passing in the course of the journey the confluence of the three roads where OEdipus slew his father, an event with its hideous train of fatalities which could not be recollected by Byron on the spot, even after the tales of guilt he had gathered in his Albanian journeys, without agitating associations.
Only in the painting, the wormwood leaves turned the Allegheny black as death shortly before the confluence.
Moonlight glinted softly off the surface of the Amur, limning the cluster of islands at the confluence with the Ussuri.
The town is built at the confluence of two great rivers, the Red and Assiniboine, the former rising in Minnesota, and flowing into lake Winnipeg 150 miles north, navigable for 400 miles.
They were aware that the first missionary to have entered Auca territory--a Jesuit priest, Pedro Suarez--had been murdered by spears in an isolated station near the confluence of the Napo and Curaray.
It must have greatly resembled that of the lowlands of Equatorial Africa, towards the confluence of the Bahr el Abiad and the Bahr el Ghazal.
Ahead lay the confluence of elemental flows, a mixing of channels draining from both the Northern and Southern Fangs.
Rio Verde, in Arizona, from Verde, in eastern central Yavapai county, to the confluence with Salt river, in Maricopa county.
The inference is unavoidable that the confluence of Persian thought and feeling with Hebrew thought and feeling, joined with the materials and flowing in the channels of the subsequent experience of the Jews, formed a mingled deposit about the age of Christ, which deposit was Pharisaism.
In the Balkans the boundary between the two stretched from the Montenegrin coast up the river Drina to the confluence of the Sava and the Danube, and then further north.
Now they were a few minutes from the confluence of Ophion with the river Melpomene.
They were beached on a wide mud flat at the confluence of Ophion and the river Arges, near the center of Phoebe.
The fleet of Nyssomu punts carried the entire host safely past Castle Manoparo, to the confluence of the Skrokar and the Mutar.
The first sermon I heard there was preached in Rockville--a town-site on the Sauk, twelve miles from its confluence with the Mississippi--in a store-room of which the roof was not yet shingled.
Ortho Bob was heading back up to the Thanatoid village at the confluence of Shade Creek and Seventh River, in Vineland County.