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Etymology 1

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (compare Dutch einde, German Ende, Swedish ände), from Proto-Indo-European *antios (compare Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiæ (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antios, “opposite”), Sanskrit antyas 'last'), from *h₂enti 'opposite'. More at anti.

Pronunciation

Noun

end (plural ends)

  1. The final point of something in space or time.
    Is there no end to this madness?
    At the end of the road, turn left.
    At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
    • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
  2. Death.
  3. Result.
  4. A purpose, goal, or aim.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
      There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
  5. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
    • The Pavillion End
  6. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
  7. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  8. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
Usage notes
  • Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.
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Terms derived from end (noun)
Translations
extreme part
death
period in curling
ideal point of a complex

Etymology 2

From Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), from Proto-Indo-European *ant- (“forehead, end, limit”). Cognate with Dutch einden (“to end”), German enden (“to end”), Icelandic enda (“to end”).

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

  1. (ergative) To finish, terminate.
    Is this movie ever going to end?
    The lesson will end when the bell rings.
    The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
Translations
ergative: finish, terminate
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
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Albanian

From Proto-Albanian *(h)aunt-, from Proto-Indo-European *h2eu- 'to ploit, weave'.

Verb

end

  1. to weave

Etymology

Verb

end (first-person singular past tense endi, participle endur)

  1. to bloom
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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

Conjunction

end

  1. than (in comparisons):
    Han er venligere end hun. (He is friendlier than she.)

Etymology 2

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

end

  1. imperative of enda and ende
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Vilamovian

Noun

end

  1. end

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