<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a bringing or coming to an end; termination; close: Putting away the Christmas ornaments marked the ending of the season.</li><li>the final or concluding part; conclusion: a story with a happy ending.</li><li>death; destruction.</li><li>a morpheme, especially an inflection, at the end of a word, as -s in cuts.</li><li>any final word part, as the -ow of widow.</li></ul>