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 Definitions for beginning: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Begin \Be*gin"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Began, Begun; p. pr. &
vb. n. Beginning.] [AS. beginnan (akin to OS. biginnan, D.
& G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna,
Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. [root]31. See
Gin to begin.]
1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to
take rise; to commence.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began. --Pope.
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2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to
enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or
state of being, or course of action; to take the first
step; to start. "Tears began to flow." --Dryden.
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When I begin, I will also make an end. --1 Sam. iii.
12.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Beginning \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.
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. --Gen. i. 1.
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2. That which begins or originates something; the first
cause; origin; source.
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I am . . . the beginning and the ending. --Rev. i.
8.
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3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow. --Dryden.
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4. Enterprise. "To hinder our beginnings." --Shak.
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Syn: Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset;
foundation.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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beginning
adj : serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the
first verse" [syn: {beginning(a)}, first]
n 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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beginning
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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130 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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