FINALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finale mean? 

• FINALE (noun)
  The noun FINALE has 3 senses:

1. the closing section of a musical composition

2. the temporal end; the concluding time

3. the concluding part of any performance

  Familiarity information: FINALE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The closing section of a musical composition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

coda; finale

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

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

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

performance; public presentation (a dramatic or musical entertainment)

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The temporal end; the concluding time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

close; conclusion; finale; finis; finish; last; stopping point

Context example:

they were playing better at the close of the season

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

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The concluding part of any performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

close; closing curtain; finale; finis

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

finish; finishing (the act of finishing)

 Context examples 

This wretched note was the finale of Emma's breakfast.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This was the sad finale of every reflection: and Captain Tilney's letter would certainly come in his absence; and Wednesday she was very sure would be wet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)