the end

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ðiː ɛnd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ði ɛnd/

the end

1. Used traditionally at the end of a story or film.
   • 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 192:

     Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; […] remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
     the end.

2. Used to indicate the termination of something.
   • 2007, Kathryn M. Hilton, Artificial Intelligence Is Fun!: Conversations with a Computer, page 240:

     I have no idea where this conversation is going. Shall we head it off the page and say this is The End.

• fin
• game over

• endeth, thneed