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beginningadjective coming before the main part or item usually to introduce or prepare for what followsthe beginning part of the book is a portrait of Europe on the eve of the World War I introductory, precursory, prefatory, prelim, preliminary, prelusive, preparative, preparatory, primary introducing, prefacing, preparing, readyingpremonitory, warningbasic, elementary, fundamentalahead, early, former, preceding, previous, prior after, behind, following, subsequent of or relating to the simplest facts or theories of a subjecta course in beginning geology for nonscience majors abecedarian, basal, basic, elemental, elementary, essential, fundamental, introductory, meat-and-potatoes, rudimental, rudimentary, underlying primal, primary, prime, simplecrude, primeval, primitive, primordial, rude, uncomplicatedpreliminary, preparatorycrucial, important, key advanced complex, sophisticatedcomplicated, convoluted, detailed, elaborate, extensive, intricatedeveloped, evolved, high, higher, refined beginningnounthe point at which something beginsthe actual beginning of the universe is still under debate, with some scientists continuing to uphold the big bang theory alpha, baseline, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold drawing board, first base, ground zero, square onecreation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, originationcradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspringdawning, openingadvent, appearance, arrival, debut(also début), emergencechildhood, infancy, youth close, conclusion, end, ending, omega cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup beginningverbpresent participle of beginto take the first step in (a process or course of action)she began walking to work for exercise commencing, embarking (on or upon), entering (into or upon), falling (to), getting off, kicking off, launching, leading off, opening, starting, striking (into) creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originatingadopting, embracing, taking on, taking upestablishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing, pioneering, setting up, spawninggetting around (to), getting down (to), getting round (to) getting going, getting to, setting about concluding, ending, finishing, terminating ceasing, desisting, discontinuing, halting, knocking off, laying off, quitting, stoppingclosing, completingabandoning, forsaking, leavingabolishing, demolishing, destroying, exterminating, extinguishing, phasing out to come into existencethe storm began late in the day and lasted all night actualizing, appearing, arising, breaking, commencing, dawning, engendering, forming, materializing, originating, setting in, springing, starting being, breathing, existing, living, subsistingarriving, coming on, emergingcoalescing, cohering, shaping (up)continuing, enduring, lasting, persisting, surviving ceasing, ending, stopping concluding, desisting, discontinuing, finishing, halting, quitting, terminatingdisappearing, dissolving, evaporating, vanishingdeparting, dying, expiring, passing away, perishing to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use ofthe religious sect was begun by a small breakaway faction constituting, establishing, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, planting, setting up, starting authoring, fathering, originatingconceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), creating, devising, fabricating, inventing, making up, manufacturing, producing, thinking (up)constructing, putting updeveloping, enlarging, expandingendowing, financing, funding, subsidizingarranging, organizing, systematizing, systemizingrefounding, reinitiating, reinstituting, relaunching closing (down), phasing out, shutting (up) abolishing, annihilating, annulling, nullifyingending, finishing, halting, stopping, terminatingrounding (off or out), winding up, wrapping up in the 12th century |