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confluence
[kon-floo-uhns]
noun
a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.
the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
their place of junction.
St. Louis is at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
a body of water formed by the flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.
a coming together of people or things; concourse.
Synonyms: ,a crowd or throng; assemblage.
confluence
/ ˈkɒnflʊəns, ˈkɒnflʌks /
noun
a merging or flowing together, esp of rivers
a gathering together, esp of people
confluence
A flowing together of two or more streams or two or more glaciers.
The point of juncture of such streams or glaciers.
The combined stream or glacier formed by this juncture.
Word History and Origins
Origin of confluence1
Example Sentences
But there is a confluence of other factors that have built up over the last year and a half, ever since the Oct.
Is there something approaching a Trump doctrine - or is this just a coincidental confluence of global events?
Bachardy’s self-portraits and drawings of Isherwood pepper the galleries, a confluence that reveals something that should be obvious: Two portrait artists, one pictorial and the other literary, resided for decades in the same household.
Trump's tariffs come as the Caribbean is already grappling with a confluence of harsh economic conditions from the cost of cleaning up after frequent natural disasters like hurricanes, to the aftereffects of the Covid pandemic.
A confluence of gentrification and changing social attitudes towards queer people in post-war society fractured the city’s physical queer community north across neighborhoods like Old Town and Lincoln Park.
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