confluence

1. 1.

   a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

   “Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers”

   Synonymsmeeting

   Broadergeographic point

   river

2. 2.

   a flowing together

   Synonymsconfluxmerging

   Broaderblend
3. 3.

   a coming together of people

   Synonymsconcourse

   Broadermerging

Other forms of confluence

plural

confluences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about confluence

What does confluence mean?

confluence means "a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confluence?

confluence has 3 syllables: con-flu-ence. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnfluəns/.

What is another word for confluence?

Close synonyms include meeting, conflux, merging, concourse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confluence a common word?

confluence is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.