noun
Meaning 1
A termination or conclusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ending
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɛndɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ɛndɪŋ
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noun
Meaning 2
The last part of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The book has a happy ending.
- The film has an unexpected ending.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of end
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the act of ending something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the termination of the agreement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: termination, conclusion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of state
Narrower terms: abort, demonetization, demonetisation, release, tone ending, completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up, retirement, relinquishment, relinquishing, dissolution, breakup, overthrow, adjournment, dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, sack, sacking, destruction, devastation, killing, kill, putting to death, abolition, abolishment, liquidation, settlement, withdrawal, drug withdrawal, closure, closedown, shutdown, extinction, extinguishing, quenching, fade, disappearance, abortion, deactivation, defusing, discontinuance, discontinuation
noun
Meaning 6
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I don't like words that have -ism as an ending
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: termination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: morpheme
Narrower terms: suffix, postfix, inflectional ending, inflectional suffix
noun
Meaning 7
the last section of a communication
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in conclusion I want to say...
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conclusion, end, close, closing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: section, subdivision
Narrower terms: anticlimax, bathos, epilogue, epilog, peroration, finale, coda
noun
Meaning 8
event whose occurrence ends something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his death marked the ending of an era
- when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conclusion, finish
Antonyms: beginning
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Narrower terms: end, last, final stage, result, resultant, final result, outcome, termination, foregone conclusion, matter of course, destruction, demolition, wipeout, omega, Z, stop, halt, victory, triumph, defeat, licking
noun
Meaning 9
the point in time at which something ends
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the end of the year
- the ending of warranty period
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: end
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: point, point in time
Narrower terms: death, last, dying, demise, period, year-end, stopping point, finale, finis, finish, conclusion, close, cease, fag end, tail, tail end, last gasp, termination, expiration, expiry, terminus ad quem, terminal point, limit
History
Etymology
From Middle English endynge, endyng, endinge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).
From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
103 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ավարտ (avart) — termination or conclusion
- Armenian: վախճան (vaxčan) — termination or conclusion
- Belarusian: заканчэ́нне (zakančénnje) — termination or conclusion
- Bulgarian: край (kraj) — termination or conclusion
- Bulgarian: завършване (zavǎršvane) — termination or conclusion
- Bulgarian: завършек (zavǎršek) — termination or conclusion
- Bulgarian: завършък (zavǎršǎk) — termination or conclusion
- Catalan: fi — termination or conclusion
- Catalan: final — termination or conclusion
- Chinese Mandarin: 結束 /结束 (jiéshù) — termination or conclusion
- Danish: slutning — termination or conclusion
- Danish: afslutning — termination or conclusion
- Dutch: beëindiging — termination or conclusion
- Finnish: loppu — termination or conclusion
- Finnish: loppuminen — termination or conclusion
- Finnish: päätös — termination or conclusion
- French: fin — termination or conclusion
- German: Ende — termination or conclusion
- German: Ablauf — termination or conclusion
- German: Beendigung — termination or conclusion
- Ido: konkluzo — termination or conclusion
- Italian: terminazione — termination or conclusion
- Italian: cessazione — termination or conclusion
- Italian: fine — termination or conclusion
- Italian: chiusura — termination or conclusion
- Japanese: 終わり (owari) — termination or conclusion
- Japanese: 結末 (ketsumatsu) — termination or conclusion
- Japanese: 結び (musubi) — termination or conclusion
- Korean: 종결 (jonggyeol) — termination or conclusion
- Latin: exitus — termination or conclusion
- Latin: finis — termination or conclusion
- Latin: exitus — termination or conclusion
- Latin: terminus — termination or conclusion
- Latin: extremum — termination or conclusion
- Latin: peractio — termination or conclusion
- Latin: extremus — termination or conclusion
- Macedonian: крај (kraj) — termination or conclusion
- Macedonian: завр́шеток (zavŕšetok) — termination or conclusion
- Macedonian: до́кажок (dókažok) — termination or conclusion
- Māori: porotutukitanga — termination or conclusion
- Norman: finnissement — termination or conclusion
- Norwegian Bokmål: avslutning — termination or conclusion
- Norwegian Bokmål: ending — termination or conclusion
- Norwegian Bokmål: endelse — termination or conclusion
- Norwegian Bokmål: slutt — termination or conclusion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: avslutning — termination or conclusion
- Occitan: fin — termination or conclusion
- Occitan: final — termination or conclusion
- Portuguese: fim — termination or conclusion
- Portuguese: final — termination or conclusion
- Portuguese: término — termination or conclusion
- Portuguese: conclusão — termination or conclusion
- Portuguese: finalização — termination or conclusion
- Portuguese: terminação — termination or conclusion
- Romanian: sfârșit — termination or conclusion
- Romanian: încheiere — termination or conclusion
- Romanian: final — termination or conclusion
- Russian: заверше́ние (zaveršénije) — termination or conclusion
- Russian: оконча́ние (okončánije) — termination or conclusion
- Russian: коне́ц (konéc) — termination or conclusion
- Spanish: finalización — termination or conclusion
- Ukrainian: заве́ршення (zavéršennja) — termination or conclusion
- Ukrainian: закі́нчення (zakínčennja) — termination or conclusion
- Walloon: fén — termination or conclusion
- Walloon: finixhmint — termination or conclusion
- Armenian: վերջ (verǰ) — last part of something
- Belarusian: канча́так (kančátak) — last part of something
- Belarusian: кане́ц (kanjéc) — last part of something
- Bulgarian: край (kraj) — last part of something
- Bulgarian: завършек (zavǎršek) — last part of something
- Bulgarian: завършък (zavǎršǎk) — last part of something
- Catalan: final — last part of something
- Chinese Mandarin: 結局 /结局 (jiéjú) — last part of something
- Danish: ende — last part of something
- Finnish: loppu — last part of something
- Finnish: loppuosa — last part of something
- German: Ende — last part of something
- Greek: κατάληξη (katálixi) — last part of something
- Greek: πέρας (péras) — last part of something
- Italian: termine — last part of something
- Italian: finale — last part of something
- Ladino: fin — last part of something
- Latin: finis — last part of something
- Latin: terminus — last part of something
- Latin: extremus — last part of something
- Latin: exitus — last part of something
- Latin: extremum — last part of something
- Latin: peractio — last part of something
- Māori: poronga — last part of something
- Norwegian Bokmål: ending — last part of something
- Norwegian Bokmål: endelse — last part of something
- Norwegian Bokmål: ende — last part of something
- Portuguese: fim — last part of something
- Portuguese: final — last part of something
- Romanian: sfârșit — last part of something
- Russian: оконча́ние (okončánije) — last part of something
- Russian: коне́ц (konéc) — last part of something
- Spanish: final — last part of something
- Ukrainian: закі́нчення (zakínčennja) — last part of something
- Ukrainian: кіне́ць (kinécʹ) — last part of something
- Walloon: dibout — last part of something
- Walloon: coron — last part of something
- Yiddish: סוף (sof) — last part of something
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