coda

/ˈkoʊdə/

/ˈkʌʊdə/

Other forms: codas

A coda is a concluding segment of a piece of music, a dance, or a statement. It's usually short and adds a final embellishment beyond a natural ending point. Like this.

Coda comes from the Latin word cauda, meaning "tail," and it's good to think of it as a tail tacked onto something that in and of itself is already a whole. If you tell a story about your crazy experience getting lost in the country and sleeping at a farmer's house, you might add, as a coda, that the farmer ended up visiting you too, a year later.

Definitions of coda

1. noun

   the closing section of a musical composition
   synonyms: finale

   type of:

   close, closing, conclusion, end, ending

   the last section of a communication