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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

에필로그

Pronunciation / Transliteration: epillogeu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Epilogue/ˈep.ɪ.lɒɡ/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"소설의 에필로그는 독자들에게 여운을 남긴다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

    "The novel concludes with an epilogue revealing the fate of the characters ten years later."
  2. 2

    A concluding event or final part of a series of events.

    "The unexpected political shift served as a dramatic epilogue to the turbulent decade."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek word epilogos, formed from epi- (meaning 'upon' or 'in addition') and logos (meaning 'speech' or 'word'). It entered Late Latin as epilogus before passing into Middle French and subsequently into English in the 15th century as a concluding section of a literary work.

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