Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - ending

(endings) 1. You can refer to the last part of a book, story, play, or film as the ending, especially when you are considering the way that the story ends. The film has a Hollywood happy ending. N-COUNT: oft supp N 2. The ending of a word is the last part of it. ...common word endings, like ‘ing’ in walking. N-COUNT: with supp 3. see also end, nerve ending