Vocabulary
Denouement
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Urdu meaning
انجام داستان،حل قضیہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- She held Nusrat Bhutto`s hand from her rented home in Delhi throughout the traumatic denouement.
- For many countries of the Global South, this has spelt the denouement of a rulesbased order, whose rules were in any case unequally applied and advantaged Western powers.
- The Noor Muqaddam saga reached its denouement just weeks earlier, when the Supreme Court finally upheld capital punishment for Noor`s killer, Zahir Jaffer.
- Hasina Wajed`s flight to India on Monday was adramatic and welcome denouement, but it does not clarify what the future holds.
- There has been great turmoil within it for the past year or so, but unlike the other branches of state, this turmoil seems to be moving rapidly towards a denouement.
Synonyms
finale, final scene, final act, last act, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close
Curator example
“the film’s denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous”
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