"finale" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɪˈnɑːli/ [UK], /fɪˈnɑli/ [US], /fɪˈnæli/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-finale.wav Forms: finales [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑːli Etymology: From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|finale||ending}} Italian finale (“ending”), {{der|en|LL.|fīnālis}} Late Latin fīnālis, {{der|en|la|fīnis||end; boundary, limit}} Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”), {{doublet|en|final}} Doublet of final Head templates: {{en-noun}} finale (plural finales)
  1. The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music. Translations (grand end of something, especially a show or a piece of music): خاتمة (Arabic), финал (final) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ဗိုလ်လုပွဲ (buillu.pwai:) (Burmese), finale [masculine] (Catalan), 結尾 /结尾 (jiéwěi) (Chinese Mandarin), 結局 /结局 (jiéjú) (Chinese Mandarin), 终章 (zhōngzhāng) (Chinese Mandarin), finále [neuter] (Czech), vyvrcholení [neuter] (Czech), vrchol [masculine] (Czech), finale [common-gender] (Danish), finale [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), finaali (Finnish), lopetus (Finnish), finale [feminine] (French), Finale [neuter] (German), finálé (Hungarian), finalo (Ido), final (Interlingua), finale [masculine] (Italian), フィナーレ (fināre) (Japanese), 終曲 (shūkyoku) (alt: しゅうきょく) (Japanese), 終楽章 (shūgakushō) (alt: しゅうがくしょう) (Japanese), соң (soñ) (Kazakh), 피날레 (pinalle) (Korean), fīnis [feminine, masculine] (Latin), terminus [masculine] (Latin), exitus [masculine] (Latin), extrēmus [masculine] (Latin), perāctiō [feminine] (Latin), finale [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), finale [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), فرجام (farjâm) (Persian), finał [masculine] (Polish), finale [masculine] (Portuguese), фина́л (finál) [masculine] (Russian), заключе́ние (zaključénije) [neuter] (Russian), фина́ле [Cyrillic, masculine, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), finále [Roman, masculine, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), final (Spanish), final [common-gender] (Swedish), finid (Volapük)
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  2. (narratology) The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works. Categories (topical): Narratology Translations (conclusion of narrative works): заключение (zaključenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 终章 (Chinese Mandarin), závěr [masculine] (Czech), exodium [neuter] (Latin)
    Sense id: en-finale-en-noun-l9DTSo~q Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, narratology, sciences Disambiguation of 'conclusion of narrative works': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: grand finale, season finale, series finale

Inflected forms

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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "conclusion of narrative works",
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      "code": "la",
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