beginning
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(noun) the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" |
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Synonyms: commencement, start |
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Related Words: Creation, accession, activation, attack, change of state, constitution, debut, entry, establishment, face-off, first appearance, first step, formation, foundation, founding, groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony, inauguration, initiation, initiative, installation, installing, installment, instauration, institution, introduction, jump ball, kickoff, launching, moving in, occupation, occupying, opening, opening move, organisation, organization, origination, recommencement, resumption, rise to power, scrum, scrummage, startup, tone-beginning, unveiling |
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(satellite adjective) at a first stage of development; just becoming familiar with the rudiments or skills or routines; "a beginning bodybuilder"; "a beginning reader"; "a novice cook" |
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Synonyms: novice |
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(satellite adjective) serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse" |
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Synonyms: first |
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(noun) the first part or section of something: "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" |
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Related Words: division, part, section |
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Antonyms: end, middle |
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(noun) the event consisting of the start of something: "the beginning of the war" |
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Related Words: casus belli, conception, creation, egress, emergence, genesis, growth, happening, inception, issue, natural event, occurrence, origin, origination, outgrowth, start |
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Antonyms: ending |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: origin, root, source |
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Related Words: birthplace, cradle, derivation, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwaters, home, jumping-off place, jumping-off point, place of origin, point, point source, provenance, spring, wellhead, wellspring |
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(noun) the time at which something begins; "They got an early start" |
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Synonyms: commencement, first, kickoff, offset, outset, start, starting time |
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Related Words: birth, incipience, incipiency, point, point in time, starting point, terminus a quo, threshold |
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Antonyms: end, middle |
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(satellite adjective) of elementary education; "a basal reader"; "children in the beginning reading classes"; "the primary grades" |
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Synonyms: abecedarian, basal, basic, primary |
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