Synonym: encounter, face-off, opposition, showdown. Similar words: confront, orientation, presentation, implementation, representation, in front of, invitation, limitation. Meaning: [‚kɒnfrən'teɪʃn] 
n. 1. a bold challenge 2. discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions 3. a hostile disagreement face-to-face 4. the act of hostile groups opposing each other 5. a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison.
n. 1. a bold challenge 2. discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions 3. a hostile disagreement face-to-face 4. the act of hostile groups opposing each other 5. a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison. 
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91. There was no final confrontation with pastor or parishioners, simply a quiet parting.
92. An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.
93. Here again he is adopting a course of confrontation, a course of deliberate challenge to established authority.
94. Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation.
95. The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation.
96. What we are witnessing in the Middle East is not only a religious confrontation.
97. The back avoids eye contact and confrontation,[http://sentencedict.com/confrontation.html] but it may invite the surreptitious gaze.
98. Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background, therefore, of Osred's reign.
99. The history of many colleges can be seen as periods of conflict and confrontation alternating with periods of consolidation and relative calm.
100. This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984-5 coal dispute.
101. It was clearly patronage that they were seeking, rather than a confrontation with another class.
102. The Paris summit formally ended four decades of military confrontation between East and West.
103. It was a bad time to have chosen for confrontation.
104. Unexpected, it was like a surprise confrontation, and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name.
105. The point is not to seek confrontation for its own sake.
106. In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces.
107. MarcelIa shares her feelings about speaking out in this way: I hate confrontation!
108. The malaise about a shared intellectual and literary culture was short-lived, the product of passing confrontation.
109. Eventually Wayne's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation, Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall.
110. But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.
111. In involves confrontation because the cross was a confrontation with evil.
112. You're hardly going to change the world by what you do, so why risk another confrontation like that last one?
113. There was a long silence, such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation.
114. The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question.
115. Even outside these types of confrontation, the very differences in language and traditions can lead to a breakdown in communication.
116. Lots of confrontation between liberated psyches, lots of free associating.
117. Pickets turned up at Hadfields on 12 March seeking a confrontation.
118. Both are held under chivalric conventions of a formal confrontation between champions.
119. This caused an angry confrontation and Minton apologised for his deceit.
120. The last thing she felt like coping with was a confrontation.
More similar words: confront, orientation, presentation, implementation, representation, in front of, invitation, limitation, contribution, in relation to, transportation, rehabilitation, interpretation, prestidigitation, conversation, conservation, environmental protection, consideration, concentration, a bone of contention, frontier, the front line, contain, container, representative, confession, nation, donation, education, relation.