beginning
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- begynnynge (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
Verbal noun of begin.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
beginning (countable and uncountable; plural beginnings)
- (uncountable) 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.
- The author describes the protagonist's youth in the beginning of the story
- The house you want is down at the beginning of the street
[edit] Synonyms
- (act of doing that which begins anything): commencing, start, starting
- (that which is begun; rudiment or element): element, embryo, rudiment
- (that which begins or originates something): origin, source, start, commencement
- (initial portion of some extended thing): head, start
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[edit] Translations
act of doing that which begins anything
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that which is begun
that which begins or originates something
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initial portion of some extended thing
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[edit] Verb
beginning
- Present participle of begin.
- He is beginning to read a new book.
[edit] Adjective
beginning (not comparable)
- (informal) 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
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Most common English words before 1923: deal · distance · thinking · #627: beginning · unless · seeing · won't
