Synonyms for beginning
bɪˈgɪn ɪŋbe·gin·ning

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1. beginningadjective

   Synonyms:
   element, first, initial, commencement, source, embryo, starting, head, commencing, origin, rudiment, start

2. beginningnoun

   Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing

   Synonyms:
   initial, first, element, origin, commencement, starting, rudiment, embryo, commencing, source, start, head

3. beginningnoun

   That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

   Synonyms:
   commencing, source, starting, commencement, element, start, rudiment, origin, embryo, head

4. beginningnoun

   That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.

   Synonyms:
   source, starting, commencement, commencing, head, rudiment, embryo, start, origin, element

5. beginningnoun

   The initial portion of some extended thing.

   Synonyms:
   commencing, origin, commencement, starting, element, source, head, rudiment, embryo, start

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1. beginning

   The Latin commencement is more formal than the Saxon beginning, as the verb commence, is more formal than begin. Commencement is for the most part restricted to some form of action, while beginning has no restriction, but may be applied to action, state, material, extent, enumeration, or to whatever else may be conceived of as having a first part, point, degree, etc. The letter A is at the beginning (not the commencement) of every alphabet. If we were to speak of the commencement of the Pacific Railroad, we should be understood to refer to the enterprise and its initiatory act; if we were to refer to the roadway we should say "Here is the beginning of the Pacific Railroad." In the great majority of cases begin and beginning are preferable to commence and commencement as the simple, idiomatic English words, always accurate and expressive. "In the beginning was the word," John i, 1. An origin is the point from which something starts or sets out, often involving, and always suggesting causal connection; as, the origin of evil; the origin of a nation, a government, or a family. A source is that which furnishes a first and continuous supply, that which flows forth freely or may be readily recurred to; as, the source of a river; a source of knowledge; a source of inspiration; fertile land is a source (not an origin) of wealth. A rise is thought of as in an action; we say that a lake is the source of a certain river, or that the river takes its rise from the lake. Motley wrote of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic." Fount, fountain, and spring, in their figurative senses, keep close to their literal meaning. Compare CAUSE.

   See synonyms for END.

   Synonyms:
   arising, commencement, fount, fountain, inauguration, inception, initiation, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, spring, start

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1. beginning

   Synonyms:
   commencement, start, origin, rise, initiation, preparation, preface, prelude, inauguration, inception, threshold, opening, source, outset, foundation

   Antonyms:
   end, close, termination, conclusion, consummation, completion

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1. beginningnoun

   the event consisting of the start of something

   "the beginning of the war"

   Synonyms:
   starting time, origin, kickoff, rootage, showtime, commencement, root, get-go, first, source, start, outset, offset

   Antonyms:
   end, middle, ending, finish, conclusion, closing

2. beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offsetnoun

   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:
   starting, get-go, low gear, starting line, number one, first gear, showtime, offset, runner, rootage, send-off, setoff, scratch line, commencement ceremony, first, graduation, low, root, kickoff, outgrowth, stolon, source, commencement exercise, start-off, counterbalance, scratch, startle, head start, start, branch, origin, first-class honours degree, number 1, first base, outset, jump, offset printing, starting time, starting signal, graduation exercise, offshoot, commencement, set-back

   Antonyms:
   middle, end, ending, finish, conclusion, closing

3. beginningnoun

   the first part or section of something

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

   Synonyms:
   starting time, origin, kickoff, rootage, showtime, commencement, root, get-go, first, source, start, outset, offset

   Antonyms:
   ending, middle, end, conclusion, finish, closing

4. beginning, origin, root, rootage, sourcenoun

   the place where something begins, where it springs into being

   "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

   Synonyms:
   extraction, start, get-go, showtime, seed, parentage, ascendent, base, pedigree, offset, tooth root, reference, theme, ascendant, informant, root system, rootage, first, etymon, germ, radical, root, kickoff, descent, stemma, source, ancestor, inception, antecedent, stock, origination, author, lineage, reservoir, origin, line, outset, line of descent, stem, root word, starting time, bloodline, generator, solution, ancestry, commencement, blood, blood line

   Antonyms:
   ending, middle, finish, end, conclusion, closing

5. beginning, start, commencementadjective

   the act of starting something

   "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"

   Synonyms:
   rootage, outset, graduation, startle, graduation exercise, commencement exercise, first, showtime, head start, starting time, scratch line, scratch, commencement ceremony, start, origin, starting line, get-go, kickoff, root, commencement, source, starting, offset, starting signal, jump

   Antonyms:
   middle, end, conclusion, ending, finish, closing

6. beginning(a), firstadjective

   serving to begin

   "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"

   Antonyms:
   end, ending, finish, middle, conclusion, closing

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1. • Happening
   • Part
   • Point

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1. start

   Submitted by anonymous on April 6, 2021  

2. aagaaz

   in urdu we use aagaaz word to show beginning of something

   Submitted by Joker_1 on December 20, 2021  

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1. beginningnoun

   Synonyms:
   commencement, outset, opening, start

2. beginningnoun

   Synonyms:
   origin, source, rise

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1. beginningnoun

   Synonyms:
   commencement, inception, opening, outset, initiation, indication, incipience, nascency, incipiency, threshold, tyronism, novitiate, origin, source

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1. List of paraphrases for "beginning":

   start, outset, starting, commencement, early, onset, principle, commencing, inception, principles, initiation, begin, departure, commence, startup, opening, beginner, begins, initial, boot, began, dawn, first, begun, launch, get-go, top, debut, beginnings

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1. T. S. Eliot:

   What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

2. Horace:

   To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

3. Helen Rowland:

   To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

4. Johann von Goethe:

   The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

5. Winston Churchill:

   Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.