Usually means: Decorative top on buildings, objects.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word finial:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. finial: Merriam-Webster
  2. finial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. finial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. finial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. finial: Vocabulary.com
  6. finial: Wordnik
  7. finial: Wiktionary
  8. finial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. finial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. finial: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Finial, finial: Dictionary.com
  12. finial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Finial (typography), Finial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Finial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. finial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. finial: Rhymezone
  17. Finial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. finial: FreeDictionary.org
  19. finial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. finial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. finial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. finial: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. FINIAL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  4. finial: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finial: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Finial: Castle Terms
  2. finial: A Word A Day
  3. finial: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. finial: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (finial)

noun:  (architecture) Especially in Gothic architecture: an ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, a pediment, a pinnacle, etc.
noun:  (by extension) Any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object such as a canopy, a fencepost, a flagpole, a curtain rod, or the newel post of a staircase.
noun:  (figurative, also attributive) The completion or end of something.

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