noun:

• last boss (video games); final boss; end-stage enemy - abbreviation ➜ ラストボス

noun:

• terminus; terminal; end edge

noun:

• full particulars; the whole story; from beginning to end - four character idiom

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• scrap; piece; fag end
• unimportant person - often refers humbly to oneself

noun:

• without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

noun:

• without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle; to finish; to bring to an end

noun:

• essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

noun / ~する noun:

• reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end - four character idiom

particle / conjunction:

• (at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons

noun / suffix:

• (a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke)
• remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
• forty-five degree angle ［留め］

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

noun:

• chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook - Kantō dialect ➜ 板場【いたば】
• area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board - orig. meaning

noun:

• leftover food (esp. on one's plate at the end of a meal)

noun:

• thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)

particle:

• (at sentence-end) indicates mild emphasis - archaism

noun:

• parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

noun:

• twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

noun:

• traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

noun:

• outer two ribs of a folding fan (i.e. the thick ribs, one at each end)
• outer frame of a lattice door

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• turnaround (e.g. at the end of a driveway)

noun:

• Eid al-Fitr (festival marking the end of Ramadan); Id ul-Fitr - From Arabic