ending
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.dɪŋ/us/ˈen.dɪŋ/endingnoun[C](STORY)
B1
the lastpartof astory:
（故事的）结尾，结局Peoplewantlovestorieswithhappyendings.人们希望爱情故事的结局是有情人终成眷属。
- I didn'tfindthe ending of thefilmveryconvincing.
- Sadly, there was no fairytalehappyending to thestory.
- Knowing the ending already didn'tspoilmyenjoymentof thefilm.
- His lastbookhad aratherstrangeending, don't youthink?
- Theplaywrightwrotetwo different endings to theplay, so that theaudiencecouldchosewhich they wouldprefertosee.
Ends and endings
- a screeching haltidiom
- accomplishment
- break
- breaksomethingup
- cessation
- completion
- conclusion
- culmination
- death
- end
- expiration
- expiry
- fag
- finalization
- finish
- screeching
- swansong
- the fag end ofsomethingidiom
- the tail end
- twilight
endingnoun[C](WORD)
B1
apartaddedto the end of a word:
（单词）词尾To make thepluralof "dog", youaddthepluralending -s.要把 dog 这个词变成复数形式，需在其后加表示复数的词尾 s。
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- affix
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- ion
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- suffix
- there'd
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable