n.

1. The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start.
2. The time when something begins or is begun: the beginning of the war.
3. The place where something begins or is begun: at the beginning of the road.
4. A source; an origin: What was the beginning of the dispute?
5. The first part: The front matter is at the beginning of the book.
6. An early or rudimentary phase. Often used in the plural: the beginnings of human life on this planet.

SYNONYMS  beginning, birth, dawn, genesis, nascence, rise. These nouns denote the initial stage of a developmental process: the beginning of a new era in technology; the birth of generative grammar; the dawn of civilization; the genesis of quantum mechanics; the nascence of classical sculpture; the rise and decline of an ancient city-state.
ANTONYM  end

noun

1. The act or process of bringing or being brought into existence: commencement, inauguration, inception, incipience, incipiency, initiation, launch, leadoff, opening, origination, start. Informal kickoff. See start/end.
2. The initial stage of a developmental process: birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, spring, start. See start/end.
3. A point of origination: derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root, rootstock, source, spring, well. See start/end.

adjective

1. Of, relating to, or occurring at the start of something: inceptive, incipient, initial, initiatory, introductory, leadoff. See start/end.
2. At or near the start of a period, development, or series: early, first, initial. See start/end.
3. Of or treating the most basic aspects: basal, basic, elementary, rudimental, rudimentary. See simple/complex, start/end.

n

Definition: origin, cause
Antonyms: conclusion, outcome, result

n

Definition: start of an event or action
Antonyms: completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, expiration, finish, goal, termination

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IN BRIEF: First part or action.

I wonder if we could just start again from the beginning.

Quotes:

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." - Ivy Baker

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard

"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment." - Thomas Carlyle

"In my beginning is my end." - T. S. Eliot

"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." - Peter Robert Fleming

See more famous quotes about Beginning

Common misspelling(s) of beginning

• beggining
• begining

Dansk (Danish)
n. - begyndelse

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    begyndelsen til enden

Nederlands (Dutch)
begin, aanhef

Français (French)
n. - début, commencement, origine

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    le début de la fin

Deutsch (German)
n. - Anfang, Beginn

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    der Anfang vom Ende

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αρχή, απαρχή, έναρξη, καταγωγή, προέλευση, αφετηρία

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    η αρχή του τέλους

Italiano (Italian)
inizio

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    l'inizio della fine

Português (Portuguese)
n. - início (m)

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    o princípio do fim

Русский (Russian)
начало

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    начало конца

Español (Spanish)
n. - comienzo, apertura, principio, origen, albores, iniciación

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    el principio del fin

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - början, begynnelse, ursprung

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
开始, 起始, 开端, 起点, 起源, 发端

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    预示结局的先兆

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 開始, 起始, 開端, 起點, 起源, 發端

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    預示結局的先兆

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 시초, 초창기

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    최후를 예시하는 최초의 징조

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 始め, 始まり

idioms:

• the beginning of the end    結末の兆し

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بدايه, بدء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮התחלה, ראשית‬

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