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say it: kuhn-KLOO-zhuhn
conclusion is a noun meaning "a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
“a decision unfavorable to the opposition”
“his conclusion took the evidence into account”
“satisfied with the panel's determination”
an intuitive assumption
“jump to a conclusion”
the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
the act of ending something
“the termination of the agreement”
a final settlement
“the conclusion of a business deal”
“the conclusion of the peace treaty”
the act of making up your mind about something
“the burden of decision was his”
“he drew his conclusions quickly”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for conclusion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.