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Beginning

Beginning Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Beginning? [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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Beginning: commencement \| commencement \| first \| kickoff \| offset \| origin \| outset \| root \| rootage \| source \| start \| start \| starting time Related Terms \| Find terms related to Beginning: 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 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 Beginning In Webster's Dictionary \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.

Beginning Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beginning?

[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"

Beginning In Webster's Dictionary

\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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