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closing

nounadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkləʊzɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈkloʊzɪŋ//

The act by which something is closed.

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is closed.

    openings and closings of doors

  2. 2

    The end or conclusion of something.

    the closing of a popular play

  3. 3

    The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.

  4. 4

    In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to the finish or ending of a series of events; occurring at the end or after all others.

    I'd like to add some closing words.

    The closing scene of Miller's "Death of a Salesman" cannot but evoke a feeling of deep pathos.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of closepresent participle and gerund of close

Forms

plural
closings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).