EPILOGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epilogue mean? 

• EPILOGUE (noun)
  The noun EPILOGUE has 2 senses:

1. a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play

2. a short passage added at the end of a literary work

  Familiarity information: EPILOGUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPILOGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

epilog; epilogue

Hypernyms ("epilogue" is a kind of...):

close; closing; conclusion; end; ending (the last section of a communication)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A short passage added at the end of a literary work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

epilog; epilogue

Context example:

the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters

Hypernyms ("epilogue" is a kind of...):

close; closing; conclusion; end; ending (the last section of a communication)

Holonyms ("epilogue" is a part of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

 Context examples 

Only one word of epilogue.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the first casting of the parts to the epilogue it was all bewitching, and there were few who did not wish to have been a party concerned, or would have hesitated to try their skill.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)