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NO END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does no end mean? 

NO END (adverb)
  The adverb NO END has 1 sense:

1. on and on for a long timeplay

  Familiarity information: NO END used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NO END (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

On and on for a long time

Context example:

the child cried no end


 Context examples 


Wondering, and of my wonder finding no end, I complied.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It's you and Meg and Brooke who make it all go, and I'm no end obliged to you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here were a phial of some salt, and the record of a series of experiments that had led (like too many of Jekyll’s investigations) to no end of practical usefulness.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Oh! there was no end of Miss Elliot's charms.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There was no end to the strange things these gods did, and he was always curious to see.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There is no end of people's coming to him, on some pretence or other.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Of pleasant talk between the brother and sister there was no end.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I answer that it was because I could see his mother’s face in his, and that for her dear sake there was no end to my long-suffering.

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

"That picture," he said, "has no beginning. It has no end. I do not understand pictures."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

About two o’clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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