Word.ws English Dictionary

dénoûment

dénoûment is the archaic form of dénouement.

Meaning of dénouement

Noun

dénouement (countable and uncountable, plural dénouements)

  1. The conclusion or resolution of a plot; unravelling.
    • Emily was a great favourite with him; and he had always viewed the attachment, at whose dénouement between her and Lorraine, Lady Mandeville meant to preside, as a somewhat foolish romance.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 271

Forms of dénoûment

pluraldénoûments

Questions about dénoûment

What is dénoûment the archaic form of?
Dénoûment is the archaic form of dénouement.

Words near dénoûment in the dictionary

  1. démodé
  2. démêlé
  3. démêlés
  4. dénouement
  5. dénouements
  6. dénoûment
  7. dép
  8. dépanneur
  9. dépanneurs
  10. département
  11. départemental

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dénoûment (page history and authors); dénouement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dénoûment.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/d%C3%A9no%C3%BBment. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.