commencement
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
French commencement.
Pronunciation [edit]
-
Audio (US) (file)
Noun [edit]
commencement (plural commencements)
- The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
- The time of Henry VII ... nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history. -allam.
- 1800, William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second
- Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.
- The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
- A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.
Related terms [edit]
Coordinate terms [edit]
- (graduation ceremony): convocation
Translations [edit]
an act of commencing or beginning
day degrees are conferred
graduation ceremony
|
References [edit]
- commencement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French comencement, corresponding to commencer + -ment
Pronunciation [edit]
-
Audio (file)
Noun [edit]
commencement m (plural commencements)
Middle French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French comencement, corresponding to commencer + -ment
Noun [edit]
commencement m (plural commencemens)
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English contranyms
- French terms derived from Old French
- French words suffixed with -ment
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French words suffixed with -ment
- Middle French nouns
