ending
/ˈɛndɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.68 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A termination or conclusion.
Example Sentences
- "The book has a happy ending."
- "The film has an unexpected ending."
- "Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved."
- "Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person."
- "Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: endynge, endung, ending, endiende, *andijōndz, *andijōną
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Derived Forms
Phrases
bad ending
case ending
double-ending
Elam ending
fairy-tale ending
fairytale ending
feminine ending
good beginning makes a good ending