Definition of beginnings Beginnings
/bɪgɪˈnɪŋz/ - [biginingz] -
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What does beginnings mean?
Wiktionary 
- beginnings (Noun)
Plural of beginning.
Part of speech
🔤- beginnings, noun, plural of beginning.
WordNet
NounPlural: beginnings |
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| beginning - the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" | ||
| start, commencement | ||
| finishing, finish the act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause" | ||
| change of state the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics | ||
| jumping-off point, point of departure, springboard a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out" | ||
| activation making active and effective (as a bomb) | ||
| tone-beginning, attack a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase | ||
| constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" | ||
| first appearance, debut, unveiling, launching, entry, introduction the presentation of a debutante in society | ||
| face-off (ice hockey) the method of starting play; a referee drops the puck between two opposing players | ||
| first step, opening move, initiative, opening the first of a series of actions | ||
| groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | ||
| housing start the act of starting to construct a house | ||
| icebreaker a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere; "he told jokes as an icebreaker" | ||
| inauguration, startup the act of starting a new operation or practice; "he opposed the inauguration of fluoridation"; "the startup of the new factory was delayed by strikes" | ||
| founding, instauration, origination, innovation, initiation, institution, creation, foundation, introduction the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" | ||
| installing, installation, instalment, installment the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" | ||
| jump ball (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate | ||
| kickoff (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score | ||
| recommencement, resumption beginning again | ||
| scrum, scrummage (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | ||
| beginning - 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" | ||
| origin, root, rootage, source | ||
| point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" | ||
| derivation the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin | ||
| spring a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken" | ||
| headspring, fountainhead, head the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" | ||
| headwater the source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile" | ||
| wellhead, wellspring a structure built over a well | ||
| jumping-off place, point of departure a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco" | ||
| place of origin, provenance, provenience, birthplace, cradle the place where someone was born | ||
| home an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" | ||
| point source a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted | ||
| beginning - 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" | ||
| commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset | ||
| middle the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" | ||
| ending, end the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
| point in time, point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" | ||
| birth the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" | ||
| incipience, incipiency beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency" | ||
| starting point, terminus a quo earliest limiting point | ||
| beginning - the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" | ||
| ending, conclusion, finish the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
| happening, natural event, occurrent, occurrence an event that happens | ||
| casus belli an event used to justify starting a war | ||
| egress, emergence, issue the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | ||
| inception, origination, origin properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" | ||
| genesis, generation the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers | ||
| ground floor the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building | ||
| outgrowth, emergence, growth a natural consequence of development | ||
| start a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning); "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen" | ||
| beginning - the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" | ||
| middle the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" | ||
| division, part, section the act or process of dividing | ||
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| beginning - serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse" | ||
| first | ||
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Wiktionary
- beginning (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. - beginning (Noun)
That which is begun; a rudiment or element. - beginning (Noun)
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. - beginning (Noun)
The initial portion of some extended thing. - beginning (Verb)
Present participle of begin. - beginning (Adjective)
Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- beginning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Begin - beginning (n.)
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. - beginning (n.)
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. - beginning (n.)
That which is begun; a rudiment or element. - beginning (n.)
Enterprise.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The beginning of an activity or event. -
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The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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A good beginning makes a good ending. -
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Such a beginning, such an end.
Part of speech
🔤- beginning, verb, gerund of begin (infinitive).
- beginning, noun, singular of beginnings.
