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say it: fuh-NAL-ee
finale is a noun meaning "the closing section of a musical composition". It is pronounced /fəˈnæli/ — fuh-NAL-ee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the closing section of a musical composition
the temporal end; the concluding time
“the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell”
“the market was up at the finish”
“they were playing better at the close of the season”
the concluding part of any performance
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 finale 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.