Synonyms:
ending, termination
Meaning: the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
Synonyms:
termination, ending, conclusion
Meaning: the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"
Usage examples
A wretched day with satisfactory ending.
"A prosaic ending to a pretty speech," she said.
Edwin Mallett, for example, wrote his verses ending:
And there it is to-day; and on it are the verses ending,
That accounts--" Stopping, she cast a glance around the room, ending with a shake of the head and a shrug.
It was now fully night-fall, and a thick humid fog hung over the city, soon ending in a settled and heavy rain.
With this apostrophe to his "critter," ending in a laugh at the conceit of her "tallow," the hunter turned off on the track of the third horse.
There were wide, beautiful porches in front and back, and massive stone steps, ending in great stone urns overflowing with bright flowers at the foot of each flight.
After a week of physical anguish, Unrest and pain, and feverish heat, Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on, Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.
It is a terrible thing to lose a companion in this way, but calm reflection shows that there could not have been a better ending to the terrible anxieties of the past week.