ending: Meaning and Definition of
end•ing
Pronunciation: (en'ding), [key] — n.
- a bringing or coming to an end; termination; close: Putting away the Christmas ornaments marked the ending of the season.
- the final or concluding part; conclusion: a story with a happy ending.
- death; destruction.
- a morpheme, esp. an inflection, at the end of a word, as -s in cuts.
- (not in technical use) any final word part, as the -ow of widow.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.