ending
A termination or conclusion.
Other meanings
The last part of something.
“The book has a happy ending.”
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.”
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "endung".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ending” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.