conflagration
Meaning of conflagration
- an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property.
tinder-dry conditions sparked fears of a conflagration in many drought-devastated communities
late 15th century (denoting consumption by fire): from Latin conflagratio(n- ), from the verb conflagrare, from con- (expressing intensive force) + flagrare ‘to blaze’.
Information about conflagration
- It is a name.
- The plural form of conflagration is: conflagrations.
- Languages in which conflagration is used:
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Hyphenation of conflagration
con-fla-gra-tion
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- conflagration is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
conflagration synonyms
Meaning inferno:
Meaning a destructive burning of something:
Meaning a very large or fiercely burning fire:
Meaning a hot glowing body of ignited gas that is generated by something on fire:
Meaning a very intense and destructive fire (typically one caused by bombing) in which strong currents of air are drawn into the blaze from the surrounding area making it burn more fiercely:
Meaning destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war:
Translation of conflagration
- French: conflagration
- German: Feuersbrunst
- Italian: conflagrazione
- Spanish: conflagración
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