CONFLUENCE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CONFLUENCE?

Need another word that means the same as “confluence”? Find 8 synonyms and 30 related words for “confluence” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Confluence” are: concourse, conflux, merging, meeting, convergence, junction, joining, watersmeet

Confluence as a Noun

Definitions of "Confluence" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “confluence” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A flowing together.
• A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers.
• An act or process of merging.
• The junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width.
• A coming together of people.

Synonyms of "Confluence" as a noun (8 Words)

concourse	A wide hallway in a building where people can walk. A vast concourse of onlookers.
conflux	A flowing together.
convergence	The act of converging (coming closer. These bivalves have assumed similar characters by convergence.
joining	A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets. The joining of hands around the table.
junction	The action or fact of joining or being joined. The junction of Queen s Road and Lancaster Avenue.
meeting	The social act of assembling for some common purpose. Next year the meeting will be in Chicago.
merging	The act of joining together as one. The merging of the two groups occurred quickly.
watersmeet	A place where two streams meet.

Usage Examples of "Confluence" as a noun

• Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
• A major confluence of the world's financial markets.
• The confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss.
• Farther down the Tigris at its confluence with the Euphrates.

Associations of "Confluence" (30 Words)

beck	A beckoning gesture.
brook	A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river. The Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks.
carp	Raise trivial objections.
creek	Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma. A sandy beach in a sheltered creek.
downstream	Situated in or towards the part of a sequence of genetic material where transcription takes place later than at a given point. Deforestation could have disastrous consequences for downstream regions.
eel	Used in names of unrelated fishes that resemble the true eels e g electric eel moray eel.
erosion	Erosion by chemical action. The problem of soil erosion.
estuary	The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
flow	The rate or speed at which something flows. The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors.
fluvial	Of or found in a river. Fluvial deposits.
ford	A shallow area in a stream that can be forded.
inlet	An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands. An air inlet.
irrigate	Supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting. Irrigate the wound.
irrigation	(medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution. The river supplies water for irrigation of agricultural crops.
lamprey	Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue.
loch	An arm of the sea, especially when narrow or partially landlocked. Loch Lomond.
majority	More than half of the votes. In the majority of cases all will go smoothly.
raft	Make into a raft. Raft wood down a river.
river	Used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers e g river dolphin. Great rivers of molten lava.
riverbank	The bank of a river.
rivulet	A very small river or stream. Sweat ran in rivulets down his back.
sedimentary	Produced by the action of water.
stream	Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. She was streaming with sweat.
subsidence	The gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land. The race was abandoned because of subsidence of the track.
terrapin	A type of prefabricated one-storey building for temporary use.
thames	The longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea.
tigris	An Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River.
trout	Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes.
upstream	In the opposite direction from that in which a stream or river flows; nearer to the source. Watch your footing and always face upstream.
vale	A valley (used in place names or as a poetic term. The Vale of Glamorgan.