Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A conclusion or termination.
  • noun A concluding part; a finale.
  • noun Grammar The final morpheme added to a word base to make an inflectional form, such as –ed in walked.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of bringing or coming to an end; termination, as of life; conclusion.
  • noun In grammar, the terminating syllable or letter of a word; the termination, whether of declension, of conjugation, or of derivation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
  • noun (Gram.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5.
  • noun day of death.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of end.
  • noun A termination or conclusion.
  • noun The last part of something.
  • noun grammar The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of ending something
  • noun event whose occurrence ends something
  • noun the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
  • noun the last section of a communication
  • noun the point in time at which something ends

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