beginning

adjective

  1. 1

    serving to begin

    the beginning canto of the poem

    the first verse

noun

  1. 1

    the act of starting something

    he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations

  2. 2

    the first part or section of something

    `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story

  3. 3

    the event consisting of the start of something

    the beginning of the war

  4. 4

    the place where something begins, where it springs into being

    the Italian beginning of the Renaissance

    Jupiter was the origin of the radiation

  5. 5

    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

Synonyms

Also useful for “beginning”:Unscrambler