a very large fire that destroys a lot of land or buildings 大火灾;大火 The fire services were not adequate to deal with major conflagrations. 消防服务不足以应付重大火灾。
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting consumption by fire): from Latin conflagratio(n-), from the verb conflagrare, from con- (expressing intensive force) + flagrare ‘to blaze’.