Meaning of BEGINNING
| Pronunciation: | | bi'gining
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- [n] the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
- [n] the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
- [n] the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war"
- [n] the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
- [n] the time at which something begins; "They got an early start"
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| | Synonyms: | | commencement, commencement, first, kickoff, offset, origin, outset, root, rootage, source, start, start, starting time |
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| | Antonyms: | | conclusion, end, end, ending, ending, finish, finish, finishing, middle, middle | | |
| | See Also: | | accession, activation, attack, birth, birthplace, casus belli, change of state, conception, constitution, cradle, Creation, creation, debut, derivation, division, egress, emergence, entry, establishment, face-off, first appearance, first step, formation, foundation, founding, fountainhead, generation, genesis, groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony, growth, happening, head, headspring, headwaters, home, housing start, icebreaker, inauguration, inception, incipience, incipiency, initiation, initiative, innovation, installation, installing, installment, instauration, institution, introduction, issue, jump ball, jumping-off place, jumping-off point, kickoff, launching, natural event, occurrence, opening, opening move, organisation, organization, origin, origination, origination, outgrowth, part, place of origin, point, point, point in time, point source, provenance, recommencement, resumption, rise to power, scrum, scrummage, section, spring, start, starting point, startup, terminus a quo, threshold, tone-beginning, trail head, unveiling, wellhead, wellspring | |
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| | Definition: | | \Be*gin"ning\, n.
1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement
of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being
or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a
succession of acts or states.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. --Gen. i. 1.
2. That which begins or originates something; the first
cause; origin; source.
I am . . . the beginning and the ending. --Rev. i.
8.
3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow. --Dryden.
4. Enterprise. ``To hinder our beginnings.'' --Shak.
Syn: Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset;
foundation.
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, aboriginal, alpha, anlage, antenatal, anticipation, appearance, authorship, autochthonous, babyhood, basal, beginnings, birth, budding, childhood, coinage, commencement, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative, creative effort, dawn, dawning, day, derivation, devising, earliness, early hour, early stage, elemental, elementary, embryonic, emergence, fabrication, fetal, first crack, first stage, foresight, formative, foundational, freshman year, fundamental, generation, genesis, gestatory, grass roots, ground floor, hatching, head, head start, improvisation, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inception, inceptive, inchoate, inchoation, inchoative, incipience, incipiency, incipient, incunabula, incunabular, infancy, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, invention, inventive, making do, mintage, nascence, nascency, nascent, natal, nativity, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, outstart, parturient, parturition, postnatal, pregnancy, pregnant, prenatal, prevenience, prevision, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, prologue, provenience, radical, radix, readiness, rise, root, rudiment, rudimental, rudimentary, running start, setout, source, spring, sprout, start, stem, stock, taproot, time to spare, ur, very beginning, youth |
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