the end
phraseUK /ðiː ɛnd/ · US /ði ɛnd/
1
Used traditionally at the end of a story or film.
- 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.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:
2
Used to indicate the termination of something.
- I have no idea where this conversation is going. Shall we head it off the page and say this is The End.2007, Kathryn M. Hilton, Artificial Intelligence Is Fun!: Conversations with a Computer, page 240: