Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start.
- noun The time when something begins or is begun.
- noun The place where something begins or is begun.
- noun The first part.
- noun An early stage or phase.
- noun The source or cause.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The origin; source; first cause.
- noun The point of time or epoch at which anything begins; specifically, the time when the universe began to be.
- noun The initial stage or first part of any process or proceeding; the starting-point: as, a small beginning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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.
- noun That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
- noun That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- noun Enterprise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
act of doing that which begins anything;commencement of anaction ,state , orspace oftime ;entrance intobeing or upon acourse ; the first act,effort , or state of asuccession of acts or states. - noun That which is
begun ; arudiment orelement . - noun That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
- noun The initial portion of some extended thing.
- verb Present participle of
begin . - adjective informal Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the first part or section of something
- noun the time at which something is supposed to begin
- noun the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- adjective serving to begin
- noun the act of starting something
- noun the event consisting of the start of something
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is here contended, on the other hand, that no conservation of any such variations could ever have given rise to the faintest beginning of any such moral perceptions; that by "Natural Selection" alone the maxim _fiat justitia, ruat coelum_ could never have been excogitated, still less have found a widespread acceptance; that it is impotent to suggest even an approach towards an explanation of the _first beginning_ of the idea of
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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But while no hypothesis of development can neutralize or explain away the great geologic fact, that every true species had a beginning independently, apparently, of every preceding species, there was demonstrably a general progress, in the course of creation, from lower to higher forms, which seems scarce less fraught with important consequences to the natural theologian than this fact of _beginning_ itself.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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He was near the end; nay, rather, near the beginning, according to the saying, _when a man hath finished then is he but at the beginning_. [
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899
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It claims to have used the term beginning in July 2001 and accuses Bauer of infringing its mark.
unknown title 2011
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It claims to have used the term beginning in July 2001 and accuses Bauer of infringing its mark.
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She eventually became a leader of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, initially as a founder and then as the first president of the Women's Division, her term beginning in 1956.
Personal Information for Helene Moses Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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District Judge Ronald N. Davies decided, and ruled that nine black students be admitted for the term beginning in the fall of 1957.
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District Judge Ronald N. Davies decided, and ruled that nine black students be admitted for the term beginning in the fall of 1957.
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His record of Supreme Court clerks, including his reported hires for the term beginning in October:
Opera-loving justices bring the music to the high court 2010
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She eventually became a leader of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, initially as a founder and then as the first president of the Women's Division, her term beginning in 1956.
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