Dictionary Definition
beginning adj : serving to begin; "the beginning
canto of the poem"; "the first verse" [syn: beginning(a),
first]
Noun
1 the event consisting of the start of something;
"the beginning of the war" [ant: ending]
2 the time at which something is supposed to
begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he
was the man for her" [syn: commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting
time, showtime,
offset] [ant: middle, end]
3 the first part or section of something; "`It
was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
[ant: middle, end]
4 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" [syn:
origin, root, rootage, source]
5 the act of starting something; "he was
responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: start, commencement] [ant:
finish]beginning See
begin
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Alternative spellings
- begynnynge (obsolete)
Etymology
Verbal noun of begin.Pronunciation
- , /bɪˈgɪn.ɪŋ/, /bI"gIn.IN/
Noun
- 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.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- in the beginning of the story
- The house you want is down at the beginning of the street
- You must put etymology and a definition at the beginning of a Wiktionary entry
- The house you want is down at the beginning of the street
- in the beginning of the story
Synonyms
Translations
act of doing that which begins anything
that which is begun
- Dutch: begin
- French: début, ébauche
- German: Angefangene , Begonnene
- Malayalam: തുടക്കം (thutakkam), ആരംഭം (aarambham)
that which begins or originates something
initial portion of some extended thing
Translations to be checked
Verb
beginning-
- He is beginning to read a new book.
Adjective
- Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing
- in the beginning paragraph of the chapter
- in the beginning section of the course
- in the beginning paragraph of the chapter
Extensive Definition
- For other uses, see The Beginning.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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