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finale

/fɪˈnɑːliUS/fəˈnɑli

finale noun: the grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.

Noun

finale (plural finales)

  1. The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
    • Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
  2. The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.

finale meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

finale in Tamil

நிகழ்ச்சியின் கடைசி அங்கம், முத்தாய்ப்பு

finale in Urdu

خاتمہ

finale in Malayalam

culmination, climax, end
രചനയുടെ അവസാനഭാഗം, രംഗാവിഷ്കരണത്തിന്റെ അന്ത്യഭാഗം, സമാപ്തി, പര്യവസാനം, കലാശം, ധനാശി

finale in Kannada

ಮುಕ್ತಾಯ, ಸಮಾಪ್ತಿ, ತೀರ್ಮಾನ
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finale in Arabic
خاتمة
finale in Persian
فرجام farjâm
finale in Myanmar
ဗိုလ်လုပွဲ buillu.pwai:

Examples of finale in a sentence

  • Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.
  • The midseason finale had a great cliffhanger.
  • Jones ends up feeling oddly secondary in a story that’s supposed to be his grand finale.

All 30 example sentences with finale

Antonyms of finale

Forms of finale

pluralfinales

Plural of finale: finales

Origin of finale

From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final.

Words formed from finale

Phrases with finale

Words that rhyme with finale

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Questions about finale

What does finale mean?
Finale means the grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
What is finale in Tamil?
Finale in Tamil is நிகழ்ச்சியின் கடைசி அங்கம், முத்தாய்ப்பு. See Finale meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is finale?
Finale is a noun.
How do you pronounce finale?
Finale is pronounced /fɪˈnɑːli (UK).
What is the plural of finale?
The plural of finale is finales.

Words near finale in the dictionary

  1. final word
  2. final words
  3. final year project
  4. final year projects
  5. final-parsec problem
  6. finale
  7. finale concertato
  8. finaled
  9. finales
  10. finalia
  11. finaling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: finale (page history and authors); finale (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); finale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); finale (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); finale (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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