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Antonyms for beginning
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : bih-gin-ing |
Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈgɪn ɪŋ |
Definition of beginning
Origin :- late 12c., "time when something begins," from begin. Meaning "act of starting something" is from early 13c. The Old English word was fruma.
- noun start of an event or action
- noun origin, cause
- He was beginning to be more afraid and more distrustful of his nephew than ever.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- In the private car the little party was beginning its own journey Eastward.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- His spirits rose, and he felt that life was just beginning for him.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- In the beginning, a star, when drawn with a nail into a brick looked as follows.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Beginning of the struggle between Indo-Europeans and Semites.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- In the beginning each little village had possessed a god of its own.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Honestly, now, I feel as if I was beginning life over again.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- And let there be no misunderstanding—we are going to begin to act, beginning today.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- This period, beginning with 1840, has been styled "a memorable decade" in the history of Parliament.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- Yet at the beginning of the present century such arguments were very popular.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
Synonyms for beginning
- alpha
- antecedent
- basis
- birth
- blastoff
- commencement
- conception
- creation
- dawn
- dawning
- day one
- egg
- embryo
- font
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generation
- genesis
- germ
- heart
- inauguration
- inception
- induction
- infancy
- initiation
- installation
- introduction
- kickoff
- onset
- opener
- opening
- origin
- origination
- outset
- point of departure
- preface
- prelude
- presentation
- principle
- resource
- rise
- root
- rudiment
- seed
- source
- spring
- square one
- starting point
- stem
- takeoff
- threshold
- top
- well
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