dénouement

See also: denouement

English

WOTD – 14 May 2011

Alternative forms

• denouement

Etymology

Borrowed from French dénouement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈnuːmɑ̃/
• IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪ.nuˈmɑnt/, /ˌdeɪ.nuˈmɑ̃/

Noun

dénouement (plural dénouements)

1. (authorship, often used metaphorically) The conclusion or resolution of a plot.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dénouement.

Translations

the conclusion or resolution of a plot

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結局／结局 (zh) (jiéjú), 结局 (zh) (jiéjú), 收場／收场 (zh) (shōuchǎng), 收场 (zh) (shōuchǎng)

• Dutch: ontknoping (nl)
• Finnish: loppuratkaisu
• German: Auflösung (de) f
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• Irish: dénouement, scaoileadh m
• Maori: tatūnga
• Russian: разга́дка (ru) f (razgádka), развя́зка (ru) f (razvjázka), исхо́д (ru) m (isxód), разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: rasplet (sh) m
• Welsh: diweddglo m

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French

Alternative forms

• dénoûment

Etymology

dénouer +‎ -ment, from Middle French desnouement, from the Old French verb desnoer (“to unknot”) + -ment, from the noun neu (“knot”), itself from Latin nōdus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.nu.mɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

dénouement m (plural dénouements)

1. outcome
2. (theater) dénouement

Further reading

• “dénouement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.