epilog

1. 1.

   a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play

   Synonymsepilogue

   Broaderconclusion
2. 2.

   a short passage added at the end of a literary work

   “the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters”

   Synonymsepilogue

   Broaderconclusion

   Part ofwriting

Other forms of epilog

plural

epilogs·

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 epilog

What does epilog mean?

epilog means "a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in epilog?

epilog has 3 syllables: e-pi-log. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for epilog?

Close synonyms include epilogue, epilogue. 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.

Is epilog a common word?

epilog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.