I. WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS

I [Verbs] ORDER

2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER

End.

[Antonyms: beginning.]

[Nouns] end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail (rear) [more]; verge (edge) [more]; tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.

consummation, denouement; finish (completion) [more]; fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination; death [more]; end of all things; finality; eschatology.

break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out, knock-out blow; sockdolager [U.S.].

[Verbs] end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die [more]; come to a close, draw to a close; have run its course; run out, pass away.

bring to an end; put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve (complete) [more]; stop (make to cease) [more]; shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

[Adjectives] ending; final, terminal, definitive; crowning (completing) [more]; last, ultimate; hindermost; rear [more]; caudal; vergent.

conterminate, conterminous, conterminable.

ended; at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest; conclusive.

penultimate; last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced; fresh.

[Adverbs] finally; in fine; at the last; once for all.

[Phrases] "as high as Heaven and as deep as hell" [Beaumont & Fletcher]; deficit omne quod nascitur [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; finem respice; ultimus Romanorum.