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finale noun [ fɪˈnɑːli ]

• the last part of a piece of music, an entertainment, or a public event, especially when particularly dramatic or exciting.
• "the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony"
Similar: climax, culmination, end, ending, finish, close, conclusion, termination, resolution, denouement, last act, final scene, final curtain, epilogue, coda, peroration, wind-up,
Opposite: beginning,
Origin: mid 18th century: from Italian, from Latin finalis (see final).


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