closing

1. 1.

   final or ending

   “the closing stages of the election”

   “the closing weeks of the year”

   “the closing scene of the film”

   “closing remarks”

   Antonymsopening

   Similarconcludingterminativeyear-end

Other forms of closing

plural

closings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about closing

What does closing mean?

closing means "the act of closing something". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in closing?

closing has 2 syllables: clo-sing. The stress falls on "clo". In IPA it is /ˈkloʊzɪŋ/.

What is another word for closing?

Close synonyms include shutting, conclusion, end, close, ending. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of closing?

The recorded antonyms are opening, opening.

Is closing a common word?

closing is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with closing?

1 word rhymes with closing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.