Beginning (root: begin)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: be=gin=ning

CIDE DICTIONARY

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.  [1913 Webster]

  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.  [1913 Webster]

  " I am . . . the beginning and the ending."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is begun; a rudiment or element.  [1913 Webster]

  "Mighty things from small beginnings grow."  [1913 Webster]
•  Enterprise.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Beginning, n.
1 the time or place at which anything begins.
2 a source or origin.
3 the first part.

Idiom

the beginning of the end the first clear sign of a final result.

THESAURUS

Beginning

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ROGET THESAURUS

Beginning

Beginning

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