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finishing line

finishing line is the alternative form of finish line.

Meaning of finish line

Noun

finish line (plural finish lines)

  1. A line marking the end of a race.
    • The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.
    Synonyms:
    finishing line
  2. (broadly, figuratively) The end of a process.
    • The race to the finish line has started already according to Jürgen Klopp and by those punishing standards Liverpool have faltered badly.2017 January 21, Andy Hunter, “Gylfi Sigurdsson and Swansea stun Liverpool in five-goal thriller”, in The Guardian

Forms of finishing line

pluralfinishing lines

Questions about finishing line

What is finishing line the alternative form of?
Finishing line is the alternative form of finish line.

Words near finishing line in the dictionary

  1. finishes with
  2. finishest
  3. finisheth
  4. finishin'
  5. finishing
  6. finishing line
  7. finishing lines
  8. finishing move
  9. finishing moves
  10. finishing off
  11. finishing out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finishing line (page history and authors); finish line (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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