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noun a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
noun a flowing together
noun a coming together of people
originFrom late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
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