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Definition of Conflux
1. Noun. A flowing together.
Definition of Conflux
1. n. A flowing together; a meeting of currents.
Definition of Conflux
1. Noun. A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge. ¹
2. Noun. A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conflux
1. a flowing together of streams [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflux
Literary usage of Conflux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... a great conflux of people to Grand Cairo ; fo that probably near a quarter of
the fouls in the city not being fixed inhabitants, and as they are not ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"... or a windmill—any object, in short, which stands out plain in the landscape—may
have power to draw men towards it; and when a conflux like this has once ..."
3. England's Gazetteer: Or, an Accurate Description of All the Cities, Towns ...by Stephen Whatley by Stephen Whatley (1751)
"NE of Uttoxeter, near the conflux of the Dove and ... (Salop,) on the Severn,
near its conflux with the Terne and the hill, called the Wrekin, ..."
4. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"During the continuance of which siege there was so great a conflux of the Gentiles,
that no one remembered having seen or heard of ..."
5. A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary by Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse (1823)
"Germany, in Baden, at the conflux of the Maine and Tauber, 42 m. ENE Man- heim,
20 W. Wurtzburg. Lon. 9° 35' E. Lat. 49° 49' N. Pop. 3227. Werther, t. ..."
6. A Typographical Gazetteer by Henry Cotton (1831)
"... appears that the art of printing was exercised here so long ago as the year 1611.
Confluentes, Coblentz, a city situated at the conflux of the Rhine and ..."
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