has particulars: abort, demonetisation, demonetization, release, tone ending, closing, completion, culmination, mop up, windup, retirement, relinquishing, relinquishment, breakup, dissolution, overthrow, adjournment, dissolution, discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking, destruction, devastation, kill, killing, putting to death, abolishment, abolition, liquidation, settlement, drug withdrawal, withdrawal, closedown, closing, closure, shutdown, extinction, extinguishing, quenching, disappearance, fade, abortion, deactivation, defusing, discontinuance, discontinuation

is a kind of change of state

Derived form verb end₂

ending(n = noun.time) end - the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"

has particulars: death, last, death, demise, dying, period, year-end, close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point, cease, fag end, tail, tail end, last gasp, expiration, expiry, termination, limit, terminal point, terminus ad quem

is a kind of point, point in time

Derived form verb end₃

ending(n = noun.event) conclusion, finish - event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"

is a kind of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent

has particulars: end, final stage, last, final result, outcome, result, resultant, termination, foregone conclusion, matter of course, demolition, destruction, wipeout, omega, z, halt, stop, triumph, victory, defeat, licking

Antonym: beginning

Derived forms verb end₄, verb end₃

ending(n = noun.communication) close, closing, conclusion, end - the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."

has particulars: anticlimax, bathos, epilog, epilogue, epilog, epilogue, peroration, coda, finale

is a kind of section, subdivision

is a part of narration, recital, yarn, address, speech

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ending, n.

Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death. [1913 Webster]
The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5. [1913 Webster]

Ending day, day of death. Chaucer.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

ending, n.
1 an end or final part, esp. of a story.
2 an inflected final part of a word.

Etymology

OE (as END, -ING(1))

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THESAURUS

ending

Z, annihilation, apodosis, arrest, bane, bell, biological death, capping, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, check, checkmate, clinical death, close, closing, coda, completing, completion, concluding, conclusion, consummation, consummative, consummatory, crack of doom, crossing the bar, crowning, culminating, culmination, culminative, curtain, curtains, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, demise, denouement, departure, desistance, destination, destiny, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, endgame, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final whistle, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, finishing, full development, full stop, goal, going, going off, grave, grinding halt, gun, halt, hand of death, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, lockout, loss of life, making an end, maturation, maturity, omega, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, perfecting, perfection, perfective, period, perishing, peroration, quietus, release, resolution, rest, resting place, reward, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sit-down strike, sleep, somatic death, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping place, strike, summons of death, swan song, term, terminal, terminating, termination, terminus, topping off, walkout, windup, work stoppage

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ROGET THESAURUS

ending

End

N end, close, termination, desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega, extreme, extremity, gable end, butt end, fag-end, tip, nib, point, tail, verge, tag, peroration, bonne bouche, bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard, consummation, denouement, finish, fate, doom, doomsday, crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain, goal, destination, limit, determination, expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination, death, end of all things, finality, eschatology, break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point, coup de grace, deathblow, knock-out-blow, sockdolager, ending, final, terminal, definitive, crowning, last, ultimate, hindermost, rear, caudal, vergent, conterminate, conterminous, conterminable, ended, at an end, settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest, conclusive, penultimate, last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced, fresh, finally, in fine, at the last, once for all, as high as Heaven and as deep as hell, deficit omne quod nascitur, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, finem respice, ultimus Romanorum.

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