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say it: EN-ding
ending is a noun meaning "the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
“I don't like words that have -ism as an ending”
the act of ending something
“the termination of the agreement”
the point in time at which something ends
“the end of the year”
“the ending of warranty period”
event whose occurrence ends something
“his death marked the ending of an era”
“when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show”
the last section of a communication
“in conclusion I want to say...”
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 ending 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.