grand finale
/ˌɡɹænd fɪˈnɑːli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The concluding event or development in a process, performance, or other series of events, made with a special flourish and often in a remarkable or spectacular manner.
Example Sentences
- "I send the grand finale, and so exit the Lady of the Lake from the head she has tormented for six months."
- "[H]e felt more and more eager for the grand finale of this exciting chase after the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel."
- "Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly."
- "In keeping with the grand tradition of the Ringling Brothers Circus, this edition offers a cavalcade of elephants, glimpses of goats, leggy dancers, fireworks, acrobats and not one but two people, the husband-and-wife team Tina and Brian Miser, blasted out of a cannon in the grand finale."
- "From a cat-and-mouse sequence at a busy airport to a long car chase through Rome to a grand finale aboard a runaway train, each action scene tops the one before it."