0 the ending of a story or series of events in which the people involved are happy or all problems are solved:
She is now sharing the story of her surgery and recovery and says, "I just want to show people that there is a happy ending".
I like romantic stories and I like books to have happy endings.
The character suffers but he does get a relatively happy ending.
Yes, the pilot had to abort the takeoff but the bottom line is, this is a happy ending—nobody was hurt.
There's a happy ending: my students had much better scores on the second examination.
However, he eventually throws the script overboard because he cannot write a happy ending.
The unconvincing ' happy ' ending also appears in several later poetic versions and continuations.
