conclusion
/kənˈkluːʒən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.40 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "At the end of the seventh hour, a flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest; […]"
- "Some have recently questioned whether conclusion of a START treaty is a lower priority for the Bush Administration than conclusion of a conventional force in Europe (CFE) treaty or whether we want to delay START pending progress in CFE."
- "The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders."
- "[I]n her boſome Ile vnclaſpe my heart, / And take her hearing priſoner with the force / And ſtrong incounter of my amorous tale: / Then after to her father will I breake, / And the concluſion is, ſhe ſhal be thine, [...]"
- "With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get [...]"
- "He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion."
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French conclusion, from Latin conclūsiō, from the past participle stem of conclūdere (“to conclude”), from con- + claudō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, conclude + -sion.
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Inflected Forms
conclusions (plural)
concl. (alternative, abbreviation)