denouement
21denouement — also dénouement noun Etymology: French dénouement, literally, untying, from Middle French desnouement, from desnouer to untie, from Old French desnoer, from des de + noer to tie, from Latin nodare, from nodus knot more at node Date: 1705 1. the… …
22denouement — de|noue|ment [deıˈnu:mɔŋ US ˌdeınu:ˈma:ŋ] n formal [Date: 1700 1800; : French; Origin: dénouement untying ] the exciting last part of a story or play ▪ The plot takes us to Paris for the denouement of the story …
23denouement — noun 1) the film s denouement Syn: finale, final scene, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close; culmination, climax, conclusion, resolution, solution Ant: beginning 2) …
24denouement — UK [deɪˈnuːmɒ̃] / US [ˌdeɪnuˈmɑ̃] noun [countable] Word forms denouement : singular denouement plural denouements formal the end of a book, play, or series of events, when everything is explained …
25dénouement — noun see denouement …
26denouement — /day nooh mahonn /, n. 1. the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. 2. the place in the plot at which this occurs. 3. the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences. Also, dénouement. [1745 55; < F …
27denouement — [18] A denouement is literally an ‘untying of a knot’. It was borrowed from French (its first recorded use in English is by Lord Chesterfield in one of his famous letters to his son (1752)), where it was a derivative of dénouer ‘undo’. This was a …
28dénouement — see denouement …
29denouement — [18] A denouement is literally an ‘untying of a knot’. It was borrowed from French (its first recorded use in English is by Lord Chesterfield in one of his famous letters to his son (1752)), where it was a derivative of dénouer ‘undo’. This was a …
30dénouement — noun /deˈnuːmɑ̃,deɪnuˈmɑnt,deɪnuˈmɑ̃/ The conclusion or resolution of a plot …
