ending

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

   I don't like words that have -ism as an ending

2. 2
   noun

   event whose occurrence ends something

   The president's death marked the ending of an era.

3. 3
   noun

   The last part of something.

   The book has a happy ending.

4. 4
   noun

   The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

   Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.

5. 5
   noun

   the act of ending something

6. 6
   noun

   the last section of a communication

7. 7
   noun

   the point in time at which something ends

8. 8
   noun

   A termination or conclusion.

Etymology

From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end + -ing.