end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕnd
ipa: /ɛnd/
enpr: ēnd
ipa: /iːnd/
ipa: /ɪnd/
homophone: Ind (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛnd
rhymes: -ɪnd
Forms: form: ends
form: ending
form: ended
form: ended
form: ende
Etymology: From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).
See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.
The verb is 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 *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.
Senses: examples: text: Is this movie never going to end?
text: The lesson will end when the bell rings.
glosses: To come to an end.
examples: text: The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
text: cmene always end with a consonant followed by a mandatory pause (a period). No other Lojban word ends with a consonant.
ref: 2005, Xah Lee, Learn Lojban Fast:
glosses: To conclude; to bring something to an end.
examples: text: The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
text: And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:2:
text: If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
text: So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thus ended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record.
ref: 1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:
text: Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.
ref: 2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8861:
glosses: To finish, terminate.
Synonyms: word: complete
word: conclude
word: consummate
word: discontinue
word: do
word: end
word: finalize
word: finish
word: fullcome
word: get through
word: round off
word: stay
word: stop
word: terminate
word: wind up
Hyponyms: word: accomplish
word: desist
word: finish off
word: fulfill
word: hang up
Derived terms: all's well that ends well
be-all and end-all
be-all end-all
endable
end-all and be-all
end-all be-all
end in
ending
end in smoke
end in tears
end it all
end off
end one's days
end one's life
end out
end scene
end up
Father Charles goes down and ends battle
my watch has ended
neverending
never-ending
nonending
September that never ended
unend
unending
Related terms: word: final