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# conflagration

«conflagration» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very large, destructive fire that spreads widely** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a conflagration, conflagrations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) A very large, destructive fire that spreads widely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#m1)

2) (formal) A big war or conflict. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it describes great fires such as the Great Fire of London (1666) or the Great Chicago Fire (1871). In news and old writing, a «conflagration» can also mean a war that spreads. It tells the reader the fire or conflict is huge. Everyday English says «a huge fire» or «blaze».

### examples

- The Great Fire of London was a terrible conflagration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x1)
- The conflagration destroyed hundreds of homes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x2)
- Firefighters battled the conflagration all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x3)
- Dry bushland can turn a small spark into a conflagration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x4)
- Leaders feared the border fight would become a wider conflagration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x5)
- Only stone buildings survived the conflagration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x6)
- The smoke drove across the scene of the conflagration, and the wind carried it away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/#x7)

### note

Countable: a conflagration, conflagrations. Formal. Say «kon-fluh-GRAY-shun». From Latin «flagrare» (to blaze), as in «flagrant».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conflagration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conflagration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.