inaugural

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=au=gu=ral

CIDE DICTIONARY

inaugural, a. [Cf. F. inaugural.].

 Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.  [1913 Webster]

inaugural, n. 

 An inaugural address.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inaugural, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of inauguration.
2 (of a lecture etc.) given by a person being inaugurated.
--n. an inaugural speech etc.

Etymology

F f. inaugurer (as INAUGURATE)

THESAURUS

inaugural

abecedarian, aboriginal, address, advanced, after-dinner speech, allocution, antecedent, antenatal, anterior, autochthonous, avant-garde, baccalaureate service, beginning, budding, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, chalk talk, chief, commencement, convocation, creative, debate, declamation, diatribe, elemental, elementary, embryonic, empty formality, eulogy, exercise, exercises, exhortation, exordial, exploratory, fetal, filibuster, first, foremost, forensic, forensic address, formal, formal speech, formality, formative, foundational, function, fundamental, funeral oration, gestatory, graduation, graduation exercises, harangue, headmost, hortatory address, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural address, inauguration, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, induction, infant, infantile, initial, initiation, initiative, initiatory, installation, introductory, invective, inventive, investiture, jeremiad, leading, liturgy, mummery, nascent, natal, observance, office, oration, original, parturient, pep talk, performance, peroration, philippic, pitch, postnatal, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparatory, prepared speech, prepared text, prevenient, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, prior, procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, religious ceremony, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, rudimental, rudimentary, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, service, set speech, solemnity, solemnization, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, ur, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

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inaugural

Precursor

N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.

Beginning

N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.