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Etymology 1

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (compare Dutch einde, German Ende, Swedish ände), from Proto-Indo-European *antios (compare Old Irish ét 'end, point', Latin antiæ 'forelock', Albanian anë 'side', Ancient Greek antíos 'opposite', Sanskrit antyas 'last'), from *anti 'opposite'. More at anti.

Pronunciation

Noun

end (plural ends)

  1. The final point of something in space or time
    Is there no end to this madness?
    At the end of the road, turn left.
    At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
    • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
  2. death
  3. result
  4. A purpose, goal, or aim
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
      There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
  5. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground
    • The Pavillion End
  6. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end
  7. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion
  8. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex
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Derived terms
Terms derived from end
Translations
extreme part
  • Arabic: نِهاية (ar) (nihaaya) f.
  • Armenian: վերջ (hy) (verǰ), ծայր (hy) (çayr)
  • Belarusian: канец (be) (kanéc) m., край (be) (kraj) m. (edge)
  • Bosnian: kraj (bs) m.
  • Breton: diwezh m.
  • Bulgarian: край (bg) (kraj) m.
  • Catalan: final (ca) m.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 結束 (zh), 结束 (zh) (jiéshù), 末尾 (zh) (mòwěi), 端 (zh) (duān) (edge)
  • Czech: konec (cs) m.
  • Danish: ende (da), afslutning (da)
  • Dutch: einde (nl) n., uiteinde (nl) n.
  • Esperanto: fino (eo)
  • Estonian: lõpp (et)
  • Ewe: nuwuwu n.
  • Finnish: pää (fi), loppu (fi)
  • French: fin (fr) f., bout (fr) m., extrémité (fr) f.
  • Georgian: ბოლოს (ka) (bolos)
  • German: Ende (de) n., Schluss (de) m.
  • Greek: τέλος (el) (télos) n.
  • Hebrew: סוף (he) (sof) m., קצה (he) (q'tzeh) m. (literally "edge")
  • Hindi: अंत (hi) (ant) m.
  • Hungarian: vég (hu)
  • Ido: fino
  • Indonesian: akhir, ujung
  • Italian: fine (it) f.
  • Japanese: 終了 (ja) (しゅうりょう, shūryō), 終わり (ja) (おわり, owari), 端 (ja) (はし, hashi)
  • Korean: 끝 (ko) (kkeut)
  • Kurdish: dawî (ku) f., talî (ku) f., dûmahî (ku) f., xilasî (ku) f., kutahî (ku) f.
  • Lao: ຈົບ (lo)
  • Latgalian: beigys, gols m., pabeigys
death
period in curling
  • Polish: meta (pl) f.
  • Russian: энд (ru) m.
  • Slovak: cieľ m.
ideal point of a complex

Etymology 2

From Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andiōnan (“to finish, end”), from Proto-Indo-European *ant- (“forehead, end, limit”). Cognate with Dutch einden (“to end”), German enden (“to end”), Icelandic enda (“to end”).

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

  1. (intransitive): To finish, terminate
    Is this movie ever going to end?
    The lesson will end when the bell rings.
    The meeting was so boring, I thought it would never end.
  2. (transitive): To finish, terminate (something or someone)
    The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
      But play the man, stand up and end you
      When your sickness is your soul.
Translations
intransitive: finish, terminate
  • Albanian: mbaron
  • Armenian: վերջանալ (hy) (verǰanal)
  • Bosnian: svršiti (bs)
  • Bulgarian: завършвам (bg), завършвам (bg)
  • Catalan: acabar
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 完成 (zh) (wánchéng), 完 (zh) (wán)
  • Croatian: svršiti (hr)
  • Czech: končit (cs)
  • Dutch: eindigen (nl), ophouden (nl)
  • Estonian: lõppema
  • Finnish: loppua (fi)
  • French: finir (fr), terminer (fr)
  • German: enden (de)
  • Greek: : τελειώνω (telióno)
  • Hebrew: נגמר (he) (nigmár)
  • Hindi: ख़त्म होना (hi) (xatm honā)
  • Hungarian: befejeződik (hu)
  • Ido: finar
  • Indonesian: berakhirkan, berakhir, tamat, selesai, habis
  • Italian: finire (it)
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
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Albanian

Verb

end

  1. to weave

Danish

Conjunction

end

  1. than (in comparisons):
    Han er venligere end hun. (He is friendlier than she.)

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Vilamovian

Noun

end

  1. end

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