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Definition: Conclusion |
ConclusionNoun1. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration: "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the panel's determination". 2. An intuitive assumption; "jump to a conclusion". 3. The temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season". 4. Event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show". 5. The proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism. 6. The act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement". 7. A final settlement; "the conclusion of a business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty". 8. The last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say...". 9. The act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conclusion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Conclusion \Con*clu"sion\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression conclusio. See Conclude.]. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Conclusion, End. The more pretentious word conclusion is often used where the simple Anglo-Saxon word end would be preferable. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Conclusions are often the most difficult part of an essay to write, and many writers feel that they have nothing left to say after having written the paper. A writer needs to keep in mind that the conclusion is often what a reader remembers best. Your conclusion should be the best part of your paper.To do: Should something on conclusions in logic be added here?
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Synonyms: ConclusionSynonyms: close (n), closing (n), decision (n), determination (n), end (n), ending (n), finale (n), finis (n), finish (n), last (n), stopping point (n), termination (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: beginning (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Belief | Persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction; certainty; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression; (idea); surmise; conclusion; (judgment). |
Completion | Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli. |
Credulity | Verb: be credulous; Adjective: jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws, grasp at straws. |
Demonstration | Make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the argument; draw a conclusion; (judge). |
End | Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard. |
Foresight | Forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone conclusion; (prejudgment); prudence; (caution). |
Judgment | Verb: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind. |
Noun: result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism; illation; corollary, porism; moral. | |
Maxim | Reflection; (idea); conclusion; (judgment); golden rule; (precept); principle, principia; profession of faith; (belief); settled principle, accepted principle, formula. |
Misjudgment | Prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate; dogmatize; have a bias; Noun: have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions; look only at one side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare pondus fumo; get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder). |
Noun: misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception; (error); hasty conclusion. | |
Prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_e fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise. | |
Predetermination | Noun: predestination, preordination, premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency; intention; project; fate, foredoom, necessity. |
Reasoning, | In conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the whole, taking one thing with another. |
Beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion. | |
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Screenplays | I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey who's conclusion is uncertain (Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Deny my will, and the arc of your destiny will reach a sudden conclusion. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig) Okay, alright, but you see you jumpedto a conclusion! (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) Although I've never come to the conclusion that we should probably just stand from now on. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) At point the matter is brought to a conclusion with both parties satisfied and able to move on with their separate lives and interests (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | And it’s my conclusion (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand) But, I've drawn a conclusion, it's all an illusion, confusion's the name of the (Video; performing artist: India.Arie) | |
Clever | A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (references; author: unknown) The phrase that is guaranteed to wake up an audience: "And in conclusion. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Logical Conclusion (1989) | |
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![]() | Mission Control Celebrates After Conclusion of the Apollo 11 Lunar. Credit: NASA. | Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope believe they are seeing the conclusion of the ... Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Photographed from USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62), shortly after the conclusion of the Gilberts Campaign. The three battleships, in an anchorage protected by anti-torpedo nets, are (from left to right): USS Idaho (BB-42); USS New Mexico (BB-40); and USS Mississippi (BB-41). Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | A bow view of the ship pierside at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 10 September 1943 near the conclusion of an overhaul. The cruiser Honolulu (CL-48) and destroyer MacDonough (DD-351) are in the background. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Pierside at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 10 September 1943 near the conclusion of an overhaul. Modifications during the overhaul, circled on this image, included the addition of two twin 40mm mounts abreast the stack and a small radar mast on the stack's forward edge. USS Honolulu (CL-48) is in the background. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | A stern view of the ship pierside at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 10 September 1943 near the conclusion of an overhaul. The 5"/38 gun and the 40mm quadruple mount aft were added during this overhaul. USS Honolulu (CL-48) is at right. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Print after a sketch by T. Dart Walker, entitled "Christmas Eve in the United States Navy". Its original caption reads: "Giving the famous Highland toast and song for sweethearts and wives. Wherever Uncle Sam's fighting ships are stationed throughout the world, it is the custom of the officers to rise, as here depicted, at the conclusion of the Christmas Eve festivities in honor of the absent home folks. This sketch was made by the noted marine artist, T. Dart Walker, while crossing the Arabian Sea on board the battleship 'Kansas'.". Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | American military delegation calling on Haile Sellassie. At the conclusion of the conference, His Majesty, Haile Sellassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, posed on the palace steps with the entire American delegation. They are, left to right: F. N. Polangin, Captai. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Ashland, Aroostook County, Maine. Marching from the cemetery at the conclusion of the Memorial Day ceremonies. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Park D. Carlos I" by Luis Alves Commentary: "The city park pavilions, currently ocuppied with some institutions, were projected by architect Rodrigo Berquó with intention to serve a new thermal hospital. The death of Berquó and the end of the monarchy in Portugal had not allowed the conclusion of" |
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Albert Einstein | When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Despair is the conclusion of fools. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. |
Roger Bacon | Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes not to refuse her assent to the conclusion by the new States of the special arrangements referred to in the conventions and agreements relating to the Universal Postal Union and to the International Telegraphic Union, to which the said new States have adhered or may adhere. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Such a conclusion could not pass unanswered by Mrs. Weston |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The conclusion was that he was in some way related to the venerable bishop |
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions | Neil Gaiman | Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion that the woman who had written A Walking Tour of the British Coastline, the book he was carrying in his backpack, had never been on a walking tour of any kind, and would probably not recognize the British coastline if it were to dance through her bedroom at the head of a marching band, singing 'I'm the British Coastline' in a loud and cheerful voice while accompanying itself on the kazoo |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | After this decisive conclusion, I entreated to be heard a word or two. |
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Health | The data support the conclusion that IVIG may be useful to prevent serious infections in patients with CLL with hypogammaglobulinemia. (references) | |
When we consider the entire body of literature, available knowledge converges on a clear conclusion prevention programs have substantial effects on HIV risk behaviors. (references) | ||
This has been demonstrated most conclusively in men with elevated blood cholesterol levels, but much evidence justifies the conclusion that similar protection will be afforded in women with elevated levels. (references) | ||
Business | The reader must draw this conclusion on his own. (references) | |
It also allows the conclusion of written contracts without paper. (references) | ||
A hygienic conclusion confirms the safety of beauty products while a certificate of conformity confirms their quality. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Suriname | This journalist also had been beaten in 1998. Although both cases are officially still under investigation, no conclusion has been reached in either case. (references) |
Nepal | However, a Tibetan ceremony marking the Dalai Lama's birthday was held on the private grounds of the original Tibetan refugee camp in Jawalakhel on July 6, and on September 2, after the conclusion of the official mourning period, authorities permitted the Tibetan community to hold a public ceremony at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | U.S.-Omani relations were deepened in 1980 by the conclusion of two important agreements. (references) |
Human Rights | El Salvador | A total of 75 were serving their sentence, and 53 awaited the conclusion of their trials. (references) |
Belize | At year's end, a committee appointed by the National Assembly reached the same conclusion. (references) | |
Antigua and Barbuda | Courts can reach verdicts quickly, with some cases coming to conclusion in a matter of days. (references) | |
Political Economy | Iran | One was released at the conclusion of his 2-year sentence in March, but the other nine remain in prison. (references) |
TURKEY | Although several cases have been brought to conclusion successfully, U.S. industry believes continued enforcement efforts are needed. (references) | |
AUSTRALIA | The General Tariff Reduction Program, begun in March 1991, has reached its conclusion, with most existing tariffs now at five percent or below. (references) | |
Political Rights | Cameroon | While the boycott made the outcome a foregone conclusion, most observers nonetheless considered the contest to be neither free nor fair. (references) |
Chad | Local elections have been delayed since the conclusion of the 1997 parliamentary elections and are not scheduled to occur until at least 2002. In September 1999, the Constitutional Court returned both legislative bills to the Parliament after finding that they violated the Constitution. (references) | |
Trade | Korea | The conclusion of a BIT would provide greater confidence to the American investment community. (references) |
Travel | Qatar | Eid Al-Fitr (four days) marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan (during which business hours are restricted) and Eid Al-Adha marks the conclusion of the pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca. (references) |
Women | Brazil | A 1999 study by an academic at the Catholic Pontifical University of Sao Paulo indicates that 70 percent of criminal complaints regarding domestic violence against women are suspended without a conclusion. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | Employers often do not provide trucks to transport the newly cut cane at the conclusion of the workday, causing workers to receive lower compensation because the cane dries and weighs less. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore -- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | You're going to the end of the equation and drawing the conclusion. |
Tom Daschle | I'm not going to come to that conclusion yet. I'm going to make our best effort to make my judgment, once that effort has been made. So that decision is a little ways off. |
Vice President Cheney | I don't think we've reached that conclusion yet, Bob. That's a decision, obviously, the secretary of defense, the current secretary, Don Rumsfeld, would have to come to and then make a recommendation to the president. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The latest advices from our envoy at the Court of Madrid give, moreover, the pleasing information that he had assurances of a speedy and satisfactory conclusion of his negotiation. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | To justify a general conclusion, requires many observations, even where the subject may be submitted to the anatomical knife, to optical classes, to analysis by fire, or by solvents. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | By agreeing to this motion, the subject may be going on in the committee, while other important business is proceeding to a conclusion in the house. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Every view which the subject admitted of was thought to have justified this conclusion. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Treaties of commerce and of boundaries with the United Mexican States have been negotiated, but, from various successive obstacles, not yet brought to a final conclusion. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Major General Jesup was also directed, on the conclusion of his duties in the Creek country, to repair to Florida and assume the command. |
Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 | In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | At least until the good offices of kindness and education have been fairly tried the contrary conclusion can not be plausibly urged. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | President Eisenhower and President Johnson expressed the same conclusion during their terms of office. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our relations with China have been rapidly consolidated over the past year through the conclusion of a series of bilateral agreements. |
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| "Conclusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Conclusion" is used about 5,083 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 5,082 | 1,933 |
| Noun (common) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,083 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "conclusion". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Sihon | N/A | Biblical | Conclusion |
| Sotai | N/A | Biblical | Conclusion in pleading |
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Expressions using "conclusion": accredited medical conclusion ♦ arrive at a conclusion ♦ assume the conclusion ♦ come to a conclusion ♦ come to the conclusion that ♦ conclusion of law ♦ conclusion of peace ♦ Conclusion to the country ♦ draw a conclusion ♦ draw conclusion ♦ foregone conclusion ♦ hasty conclusion ♦ in conclusion ♦ reach a conclusion ♦ reach no conclusion ♦ the conclusion ♦ the conclusion is ♦ wrong conclusion. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "conclusion": conclusion-on. | |
Ending with "conclusion": evidence-conclusion. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conclusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uitslag (effect, result), gevolgtrekking (inference). (various references) | |
Albanian | rezultat (consequent, fruit, job, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, reflex, result, score, train, upshot), realizim (execution, fruition, materialization, realization), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, last, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), mbyllje (closing, closure, committal, confinement, enclosure, entombment, finality, furl, impoundment, imprisonment, inclosure, locking, obturation, occlusion, offishness, shutdown, windup), mbarim (closure, date, death, end, ending, expiration, finality, finish, leaving, Omega, period, tag, tail end, termination), konkluzion (corollary, eduction, finding, illation, inference, opinion, peroration, resume, rider). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهاية (end, result), فض الاجتماع (closing), نتيجة (consequence, echo, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, outcome, payoff, precipitate, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, sequel, termination, upshot, work), ختام, إستنتاج (deduction, derivation, illation, inference, reasoning), إختتام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сключване (contraction, formation), решение (adjudication, answer, award, decision, determination, judgement, judgment, pronouncement, resolution, resolve, say so, sentence, settlement, solution, verdict, working out), резултат (aftermath, consequent, count, effect, end, event, harvest, issuance, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, produce, product, progeny, purpose, result, score, sequel), край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up), заключение (decision, finale, illation, inference, peroration, upshot), завършване (completion, termination), приключване (close, closing, determination, termination, wind up), последно решение, изход (egress, event, exit, hole, issuance, issue, mouth, outcome, outflow, outlet, result, way out), извод (consequence, consequent, corollary, illation, implication, inference, outlet, rider, terminal). (various references) | |
Catalan | fi (aim, end, ending, goal, purpose, target). (various references) | |
Chinese | 結論 (verdict), 結局 (ending), 结论. (various references) | |
Czech | zakonèení, závìr (breech, deduction, eduction, end, ending, finish, inference, result, upshot). (various references) | |
Danish | udfald (effect, result), resultat (effect, result). (various references) | |
Dutch | conclusie (inference), gevolgtrekking (inference), besluit (decision, decree, end, ending). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rezultato (effect, result), konkludo (inference). (various references) | |
Faeroese | niðurløga (inference), endi (end, ending), úrslit (effect, result), úrskurður (adjudication, inference, verdict). (various references) | |
Finnish | loppu (close, end, ending, finish, remainder, rest, termination), johtopäätös (inference). (various references) | |
French | conclusion (consequent), fin (Finland-ISO code). (various references) | |
Frisian | konklúzje (inference), ein (duck, end, ending). (various references) | |
German | schlussfolgerung (inference), schluss (back, breakup, cadence, close, closing, closure, end, ending, finish, inference, rear, termination), folgerung (deduction, implication, inference, ratiocination), abschluss (balancing, close, closure, completion, degree, end, ending, finale, placing, sale, taking out). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπέρασμα (conjecture, deduction, induction, inference, upshot), λήξη (close, deadline, end, expiration, matureness, maturity, termination). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסקנה (deduction, inference, upshot), לבוא לידי מסקנות, תולדה (begetting, birth, consequence, corollary, offspring, outcome, procreation, result, sequel, upshot), חתימה (autograph, end, sign, signature, signing up, subscription), הפטרה, גמור (absolute, complete, completion, concluded, end, ended, entire, finish, finished, finishing, out and out, outright, perfect, sheer, stark, termination, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, total, utter, very), גמר (complete, completion, end, final, finish, termination), סיום (completion, end, ending, finish, termination), נעילה (bolting, closing, closure, lock on, locking, shutting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | következtetés (come off, consequence, deduction, derivation, discursiveness, eduction, illation, induction, inference, syllogism), befejezés (accomplishment, completion, end, finale, finishing, perfecting, perfection, roundoff, termination, windup). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penghabisan (last), kesimpulan (consecution, consecutive, inference). (various references) | |
Italian | conclusione (close, decision, end, ending, finding, inference, tag, upshot), risultato (accrued, achievement, achievements, attainment, consequence, effect, outcome, purpose, result, return, success, upshot), fine (chic, close, closure, dainty, end, ending, fine, finish, object, purpose, result, sake, subtile, subtle, termination, thin). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 締結 (contract). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かんりょう (bureaucracy, bureaucrat, completion, control), だんらく (end, paragraph), だんあん (decision), だいだんえん (denouement, ending, finale), ていけつ (chastity, contract, imperial palace, imperial palace gate, purity), はんだん (adjudication, decipherment, decision, divination, judgement), けっちゃく (decision, end, settlement), けつろん, けつご (concluding remarks), けつまつ (end), けつび (close, end), よだん (digression, guessing, prediction, sequel), むすび (ending, union), だんてい (decision), かんけつ (brevity, completion, conciseness, intermittence, intermittency, intermittent, investigation and decision, simplicity, sweat and blood), たいび (end, finale), さいご (end, last, one's last moment, one's time of death), まとめ (settlement), まとまり (consistency, settlement), きちゃく (return), きけつ (beginning and end, decided, determined, settled), しゅうけつ (close, end, ending, gathering, massing), しゅうきょく (bend, close, denouement, end, end of a game of go, final, finale, geologic fold, ultimate), しめくくり (completion, end, summing up, supervision), きりめ (a cut, a notch, an end), きりあげ (end), きまり (custom, regulation, rule, settlement), おさまり (end, settlement), おおぎり (close, large chop, last piece on the program), ろんだん (rostrum, the world of criticism, verdict). (various references) | |
Korean | 결론. (various references) | |
Lombard | fin (end, ending). (various references) | |
Malay | akibat (consequence, consistency, effect, result), akhir (end, ending). (various references) | |
Manx | jerrey (back, back of cart, bottom, close, closing, closure, effect, end, expiration, expiry, extreme, finale, finish, hinderpart, offal, stern, termination), chaglym (accumulate, assemble, collection, deduce, gather, whip round; effort), briwnys (appreciation, arbitration, award, decision, doom, estimate, judgement, jurisdiction, ruling, verdict). (various references) | |
Norwegian | slutt (end, ending, finish). (various references) | |
Papiamen | konklushon (inference), fin (end, ending). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onclusioncay.(various references) | |
Polish | koniec (end, ending). (various references) | |
Portuguese | conclusão (close, consequence, deduction, effect, end, ending, finale, finding, inference, result, termination, upshot, windup). (various references) | |
Romanian | concluzie (decision, deduction, determination, end, finding, inference, laconism, opinion, upshot), capãt (beginning, bottom, close, dead end, end, extremity, head, term, termination, tip), sfîrşit (end, ending), sfârşit (all over, cessation, close, death, decline, dissolution, end, end-all, ended, ending, exhausted, finality, fine, finis, finish, issue, quietus, stop, term, termination, upshot), semnare (signing, subscription), rezumat (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, argument, brief, capsule, compendium, digest, docket, epitome, recapitulation, resume, sketch, summary, synopsis), rezultat (child, effect, end, event, fruit, issue, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, product, progeny, result, resume, sum, upshot), hotãrâre (act, adjudgement, adjudgment, adjudication, award, decision, decree, determination, dispensation, firmness, flatness, judgement, order, ordinance, peremptoriness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, result, rule, sentence, stoutness, verdict, will, writ), deducţie (deduction, eduction, inference), încheiere (close, closure, end, finish, rest, termination, winding up). (various references) | |
Russian | вывод (corollary, deduction, derivation, development, eduction, illation, inference, lead-out, recapitulation, rider). (various references) | |
Scottish | crìoch (boundary, close, end, ending, limit), comh-dhùnadh (end), ceann (chief, end, ending, extremity, head, pate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | završetak (coda, completion, end, termination, wind up), zaključak (finding, illation, inference). (various references) | |
Spanish | conclusión (close, closure, consensus, deduction, end, ending, epitome, finality, finish, hiatus, inference). (various references) | |
Sranan | kaba (already, by now, come to an end, end, end up, ending, expire, yet). (various references) | |
Swahili | mwisho (end, ending). (various references) | |
Swedish | slut (at an end, close, closure, colophon, come off, demise, disposed of, done in, done up, end, ending, exhausted, expiry, finish, finished, gone, heel, net, out, over, tail, termination, upshot, washed up, wind up), konklusion (inference), slutsats (consequence, illation, implication, inference). (various references) | |
Tagalog | wakás (end, ending), katapusán (end, ending). (various references) | |
Turkish | sonuç (aftermath, close, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, outcome, payoff, produce, product, result, resultant, sequel, show, success, sum, upshot), son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), netice (consequence, consequent, effect, result, sequel, sum, upshot), karar (adjudication, award, decider, decision, decree, determination, doom, fiat, finding, holding, judgement, resolution, resolve, sentence, verdict, vote), kanı (belief, deliverance, esteem, estimation, eye, fancy, idea, impression, judgement, notion, opinion, persuasion, sense, sentiments, sight, surmise, thought, view), hüküm (adjudication, assize, authority, award, decision, deliverance, dicta, dictum, doom, estimate, fiat, judgement, operation, predication, provision, proviso, rule, ruling, sentence, statute, verdict). (various references) | |
Turkmen | netije (result), karar (decision, patience), gutaryю. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укладення, результат (consequence, consequent, corollary, development, eduction, effect, end, issue, offspring, omnium, outcome, outgrowth, output, produce, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, result, subsequence, termination, upshot), висновок (amen, consequence, corollary, deduction, educt, eduction, illation, inference, peroration), наслідок (after effect, consequence, consequent, corollary, effect, event, heritage, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, produce, progeny, sequel, sequence), закінчення (close, closing, completion, ending, expiry, leaving, outgoing), завершення (achievement, close, closure, come off, completion, consummation, copestone, coping stone, ending, finality, finishing, fulfilment, perfecting, wind up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự kết thúc (close, closing, ending, expiration, expiry, finale, finish, termination, wind-up), sự giải quyết (settlement), sự dàn xếp (mediation, settlement), sự chấm dứt (cessation, let-up), phần kết luận sự quyết định, phần cuối sự kết luận. (various references) | |
Welsh | clo (lock), casgliad (abscess, boil, collection, gathering), diweddglo, diwedd (end). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conclusionem, conjectura, consummatio, consummatione, consummationem, consummationi, consummationis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ende. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ecclesiastes Chapter 12, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TeloV logou to pan akouetai ton qeon fobou kai taV entolaV autou fulasse oti touto paV o anqrwpoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Finem loquendi omnes pariter audiamus Deum time et mandata eius observa hoc est enim omnis homo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Eende of speking alle heere wee togidere. Dred God, and his hestis kep; that is, eche man. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Ecclesiastes Chapter 12, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kini mao ang katapusan sa butang; ang tanan nadungog na: Kahadloki ang Dios, ug bantayi ang iyang mga sugo; kay kini mao ang tibook nga katungdanan sa tawo. |
| Croatian | Èujmo svemu završnu rijeè: "Boj se Boga, izvršuj njegove zapovijedi, jer - to je sav èovjek." |
| Danish | Enden på Sagen, når alt er hørt, er: Frygt Gud og hold hans Bud! Thi det bør hvert Menneske gøre. |
| Dutch | Van alles, wat gehoord is, is het einde van de zaak: Vrees God, en houd Zijn geboden, want dit betaamt allen mensen. |
| Finnish | Loppusana kaikesta, mitä on kuultu, on tämä: Pelkää Jumalaa ja pidä hänen käskynsä, sillä niin tulee jokaisen ihmisen tehdä. |
| German | Laßt uns die Hauptsumme alle Lehre hören: Fürchte Gott und halte seine Gebote; denn das gehört allen Menschen zu. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesudah semuanya kupertimbangkan, inilah kesimpulan yang kudapatkan. Takutlah kepada Allah dan taatilah segala perintah-Nya, sebab hanya untuk itulah manusia diciptakan-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kesudahan segala perkara yang didengar ia ini: Takutlah akan Allah dan peliharakanlah segala firman-Nya, karena itulah patut kepada segala manusia. |
| Italian | Conclusione del discorso, dopo che si è ascoltato ogni cosa: Temi Dio e osserva i suoi comandamenti, perché questo per l'uomo è tutto. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko te whakamutunga tenei o te mea katoa; kua rangona katoatia; e wehi ki te Atua, puritia ana whakahau: ko nga mea katoa hoki enei hei mahi ma te tangata. |
| Norwegian | Enden på det hele, efterat alt er hørt, er dette: Frykt Gud og hold hans bud! Det er hvad hvert menneske bør gjøre. |
| Portuguese | Este é o fim do discurso; tudo já foi ouvido: Teme a Deus, e guarda os seus mandamentos; porque isto é todo o dever do homem. |
| Rumanian | Sq ascultqm dar kncheierea tuturor knvqyqturilor: Teme-te de Dumnezeu wi pqzewte poruncile Lui. Aceasta este datoria oricqrui om. |
| Swedish | Änden på talet, om vi vilja höra huvudsumman, är detta: Frukta Gud och håll hans bud, ty det hör alla människor till. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conclusion": conclusionary, conclusions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "conclusion": nonconclusion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "conclusion": nonconclusions. (additional references) | |
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"Conclusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coclusion, conclision, concludion, conclusio, conclustion, conclution, concursion, concusion, conslusion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conclusion" (pronounced kunkluw"zhun) |
| 7 | -n k l uw" zh u n | inclusion. |
| 6 | -k l uw" zh u n | exclusion, occlusion, preclusion, seclusion. |
| 5 | -l uw" zh u n | allusion, collusion, delusion, disillusion, illusion. |
| 4 | -uw" zh u n | confusion, contusion, diffusion, extrusion, fusion, infusion, intrusion, profusion, transfusion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, conversion, corrosion, decision, derision, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, excursion, explosion, immersion, implosion, incision, incursion, indecision, invasion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occasion, persuasion, perversion, precision, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, version, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: occlusion. | |
-2 letters: colonics, councils. | |
-3 letters: colonic, colonus, council, nuncios, uncoils. | |
-4 letters: clonic, clonus, colics, colins, coloni, colons, conics, conins, consol, consul, coulis, cousin, insoul, nicols, nuncio, onions, solion, uncoil, uncool, unions, unison. | |
-5 letters: cions, cisco, clons, cocos, coils, coins, colic, colin, colon, conic, conin, conns, conus, cools, coons, icons, incus, linns, linos, lions, locos, locus. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: conclusions. | |
+2 letters: cocounseling. | |
+3 letters: cocounselling, conclusionary, noncellulosic, nonconclusion, unconsciously. | |
+4 letters: constructional, nonconclusions, unconscionable, unconscionably. | |
+5 letters: conscientiously, inconspicuously. | |
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