'Conflagration' definitions:
Definition of 'conflagration'
(from WordNet)
noun
A very intense and uncontrolled fire [syn: conflagration, inferno]
Definition of 'Conflagration'
From: GCIDE
- Conflagration \Con`fla*gra"tion\, n. [L. conflagratio: cf. F. conflagration.] A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. [1913 Webster]
- Till one wide conflagration swallows all. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conflagration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- backfire,
- balefire,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- blaze,
- bonfire,
- burning ghat,
- campfire,
- cheerful fire,
- combustion,
- corposant,
- cozy fire,
- crackling fire,
- crematory,
- death fire,
- fen fire,
- fire,
- flame,
- flashing point,
- flicker,
- flickering flame,
- forest fire,
- fox fire,
- funeral pyre,
- holocaust,
- ignis fatuus,
- ignition,
- inferno,
- ingle,
- lambent flame,
- marshfire,
- open fire,
- prairie fire,
- pyre,
- raging fire,
- sea of flames,
- sheet of fire,
- signal beacon,
- smudge fire,
- three-alarm fire,
- two-alarm fire,
- watch fire,
- wildfire,
- witch fire