endingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈen.dɪŋ/us/ˈen.dɪŋ/ending noun [ C ] (STORY)
B1 the last part of a story:
People want love stories with happy endings.
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- I didn't find the ending of the film very convincing.
- Sadly, there was no fairytale happy ending to the story.
- Knowing the ending already didn't spoil my enjoyment of the film.
- His last book had a rather strange ending, don't you think?
- The playwright wrote two different endings to the play, so that the audience could chose which they would prefer to see.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ends and endings
- accomplishment
- break
- break up
- cessation
- coda
- completion
- conclusion
- culminate
- death
- demise
- denouement
- end
- endpoint
- expiry
- fag
- finalize
- finish
- it'll (all) end in tears idiom
- later
- the tail end
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ending noun [ C ] (WORD)
B1 a part added to the end of a word:
To make the plural of "dog", you add the plural ending -s.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ee
- -ese
- combining form
- compound
- disyllabic
- est
- monosyllabic
- monosyllable
- particle
- polysyllabic
- portmanteau word
- prefix
- s
- stem
- syllable
- that'd
- that'll
- that's
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