Denouement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Denouement is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of dénouement.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of dénouement.
Example Sentences
Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister has at last reached its denouement.
The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, […] But the denouement should not be confused with the end of a story.
And then, when all that is done, it somehow needs to find believable and distinct emotional denouements for (if I’ve counted correctly) 17 characters.
In the sizzling two-hour denouement, for example, the music titan Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) discovered that he didn’t have a terminal illness after all (Dun-dun-DUN).
Word Forms
- denouements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include climax, anticlimax, climactic, coda, finale, epilogue.
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