end

Meanings

Noun

• The terminal point of something in space or time.
• The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• Death.
• The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
• Result.
• A purpose, goal, or aim.
• One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
• A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• Money.

Verb

• to come to an end
• To finish, terminate.

Related

Similar words

• conclusion, limit, terminus, termination

Opposite words

• beginning, start

Narrower meaning words

• Audley End
• big end
• bitter end
• Bourne End
• Bridge End, Bridgend
• Cliffsend, Cliffs End
• Crouch End
• East End
• Elmers End
• Four Lane Ends
• Hatch End
• Hedge End
• Hundred End
• Land's End
• Lane End
• living end
• loose end
• Mile End
• North End
• Park End, Parkend
• Ponders End
• Princes End
• rear end
• Rood End
• split end
• Streetly End
• The End
• tight end
• Town End, Townend
• Wallsend
• weekend
• West End
• world's end, World's End

Origin

• From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (compare Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (compare Old Irish ét ("end, point"), Latin antiae ("forelock"), Albanian anë ("side"), Ancient Greek ἀντίος ("opposite"), Sanskrit अन्त्य ("last")), from *h₂entíos. More at and and anti-.
• The verb is 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"), denominative from *andijaz.