Beginning

  

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Beginning

Definition: Beginning

Beginning

Adjective

1. At a first stage of development; just becoming familiar with the rudiments or skills or routines; "a beginning bodybuilder"; "a beginning reader"; "a novice cook".

2. Serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse".

Noun

1. The event consisting of the start of something: "the beginning of the war".

2. The time at which something begins; "They got an early start".

3. The first part or section of something: "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story".

4. 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".

5. The act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beginning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Beginning

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
BENTEnglishBeginning Evening Nautical TwilightMeteorology & Standards, Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Beginning

Synonyms: beginning(a) (adj), novice(a) (adj), commencement (n), first (n), kickoff (n), offset (n), origin (n), outset (n), root (n), rootage (n), source (n), start (n), starting time (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: end (n), ending (n), finish (n), middle (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Beginning

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beginning

Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure.

Begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo.

Adverb: at the beginning, in the beginning; Noun: first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine.

Adjective: beginning; Verb: initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent.

Get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set to; make a beginning, make a start.

Change

Phrase: "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream"; nous avons change tout cela; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis; non sum qualis eram; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur; in statu quo ante bellum; "still ending and beginning still"; vox audita perit littera scripta manet.

Completeness

Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.

Destruction

Destroying; Verb: demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition; (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, razzia; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation; (extraction); beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation; (deterioration); sabotage.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Beginning

English words defined with "beginning": beginning rhymein the beginning. (references)
Etymologies containing "beginning": Quattrocento. (references)

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Modern Usage: Beginning

DomainUsage

Screenplays

He's beginning to believe (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Come on lads, let's get home, the sky's beginning to bruise, night must fall and we shall be forced to camp (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

I'm beginning to like this guy. (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

Either I'm going to kill her, or I'm beginning to like her. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

I am beginning to repel people I am trying to seduce (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.)

Lyrics

In this world we're just beginning (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

I'm only just beginning to see the real you (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill)

That's not the beginning of the end (Return To Innocence; performing artist: Enigma)

But lately I'm beginning to find that when (Drive; performing artist: Incubus)

Smell those shrimp, they're beginning to boil ("Margaritaville"; performing artist: Jimmy Buffett)

Clever

Two wrongs are only the beginning. (references; author: unknown)

What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning. (references; author: unknown)

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Always a New Beginning (1973)

Lassie: A New Beginning (1973)

The Beginning of the End of the World (1971)

Part Two: The Beginning (1970)

In the Beginning a Wilderness of Air (1959)

Song Titles

Funky Nassau (performing artist: The Beginning of The End)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Beginning

DomainTitle

Books

  • 1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist Volume One: Chords and Chord Progressions for the Guitar (reference)

  • Beginning VB.NET, Second Edition (reference)

  • Ready... Set... Read!: The Beginning Reader's Treasury (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Ellen DeGeneres - The Beginning (reference)

  • Homicide Life on the Street: The Beginning (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Beginning

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Beginning

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

The beginning of the chemotherapy testing program. J. Hartwell (right) and assistant at NCI about 1950. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Note the contrast between normal skin cytoarchitecture, and the beginning acanthosis (increased thickness of the stratum spinosum) with elongation of rete pegs; magnified 100X. Credit: CDC.

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the CDC has been at the forefront of HIV investigation and lab research. Credit: CDC.

This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, ... Credit: NASA.

In the beginning of the 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life," angelic figures ... Credit: NASA.

"Malmedy Massacre" - approximately 70 members of Battery B killed after captured Fair J. Bryant was travelling with Battery A of 285th at time of massacre Occurred at beginning of Battle of the Bulge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Amphibious landing beach on Tinian at H+5 hours Note survey crew on left already beginning work for artillery survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Beginning point of trip to Fanning Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Beginning of haulback of net at the end of a trawl. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Beginning to build a hydrographic signal. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Beginning
 

"Fallen Leaf" by Jacqueline Abernethy
Commentary: "This is simply a leaf that feel off my tree at the beginning of fall."
"Pen in Hand" by Brian Griesbaum
Commentary: "Left Handed Pen in Hand beginning to write memo."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Beginning".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
A composition beginning in a minor mode which moves to a major mode without resolution.Amplified harmonica using a call and response; a beginning of a short jam.
Bell rings to signify the beginning of the boxing round.Bells playing "here comes the bride"; beginning of the wedding march.
Bugle playing the beginning of "charge" tune.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Beginning

AuthorQuotation

Blaise Pascal

Things are always at their best in the beginning.

Confucius

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end.

Democritus

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

John Heywood

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Kahlil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Marcus T. Cicero

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Mary Stuart

In my end is my beginning.

Oscar Wilde

Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Virgil

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Beginning

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information be received by us, or by our chief justiciar, how the merchants of our land found in the land at war with us are treated; and if our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land. (reference)

John Locke

1690

And this is that, and that only, which did, or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment to US Constitution

1795-1999

If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

To be issued forthwith, further 40,000,000,000 Marks gold bearer bonds, bearing interest at 2-1/2 per cent. per annum between 1921 and l926, and thereafter at 5 per cent. per annum with an additional l per cent. for amortisation beginning in 1926 on the whole amount of the issue. (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Beginning

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

It would be almost beginning their life of civility again

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

And Bruno, having quite exhausted all his inventive faculty, by beginning in too great a hurry, quietly resigned himself to listening

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Thus, at the beginning of this century, the old society cleansed its double bottom and made the toilette of its sewer

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Reproduction is the beginning of death

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The Western States are nervous under the beginning change

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Beginning

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Research into such prevention measures is just beginning. (references)

Now, however, the brain is beginning to relinquish its secrets. (references)

Doctors are beginning to use laparoscopic surgery for appendectomy. (references)

Business

The French are beginning to purchase online. (references)

Lines beginning 090 denote premium rate services. (references)

The use of broadband is just beginning in France. (references)

Children

Argentina

A 1993 law requires that all children receive a minimum of 9 years of schooling, beginning at age six. (references)

Austria

While 9 years of education are mandatory for all children beginning at age 6, the Government also provides free education through secondary school and subsidizes technical, vocational, or university education. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Children are not subject to the strict social segregation faced by women although they are segregated by sex in schools, beginning at the age of 7; however, schools were integrated through the fourth grade in some areas. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kyrgyz Republic

All media must register with the Ministry of Justice and wait for Ministry approval before beginning to operate. (references)

Belgium

The center began limited operations in 1999 and was fully operational and open to the public at the beginning of the year. (references)

Indonesia

Aceh's leading daily newspaper, Serambi Indonesia, closed for a month beginning on August 11 after harassment from the GAM. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Many agents and distributors are beginning to emerge. (references)

Uganda

By 1990, these policies were beginning to produce results. (references)

Colombia

Production from current reserves is beginning to taper off. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

The men had fled to the two villages after the beginning of the "zero tolerance" crackdown by police. (references)

Chile

The case was reopened at the beginning of 2000 and is among those being investigated by Judge Guzman. (references)

Italy

Prosecutors alleged that beginning in 1986 he illicitly overturned more than 400 organized crime-related convictions. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

The study found that, during 2000, the indigenous population grew by 3.5 percent, to a total of approximately 350,000 persons, spread among 216 "nations." At the beginning of the 20th century, the population was approximately one-third its present size, and scholars have estimated that about 1,000 indigenous "nations," comprising 3 to 4 million persons, existed at the time of discovery by the Europeans. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Minority officers are beginning to be deployed in areas where minority returns are occurring; however, the lack of housing for returning police officers has hindered this process. (references)

Japan

However, in August 2000, the Education Ministry announced that, beginning in 2001, graduates of non-Japanese-language schools would be eligible to take national university examinations if they pass a state-run high school equivalency test. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

Many feared that he was beginning to undermine their effectiveness. (references)

Turkey

Turkey has been a vital U.S. ally since the beginning of the Cold War. (references)

CHINA

Interest rates on foreign currency deposits have declined since the beginning of 2001 to match the low rates on domestic currency savings. (references)

Political Rights

Albania

Five rounds of voting, beginning in June and ending in August, were required to complete the process. (references)

Malaysia

Originally appointed for a 2-year term beginning in January, Ainum, citing ill health, resigned in November, and was replaced at the end of the year. (references)

Zambia

The MMD attempted to expel 22 of its M.P.'s who were leaders in the anti-third-term movement following the party's convention in the beginning of May. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

As of the beginning of 1999, the ADB had signed agreements to lend Kazakhstan $415 million. (references)

Peru

Peru's average tariff stands at 11.6%, down significantly from over 60% at the beginning of 1990. (references)

West Bank

Banks in WB/G may hold dollar accounts, and they are beginning to develop some offshore banking services. (references)

Travel

Korea

Some companies are beginning to provide Saturday mornings or every other Saturday off. (references)

Luxembourg

German is the language of instruction beginning in first grade; French begins shortly thereafter. (references)

Greece

Growing tourist travel makes advance hotel reservations advisable, particularly beginning in late spring and summer. (references)

Worker Rights

Mozambique

Children must undergo a medical examination before beginning work. (references)

El Salvador

The union must wait 4 days from the time the Ministry notifies the employer before beginning the strike. (references)

Cambodia

In a case beginning in 2000, a factory continued to defy a MOSALVY order to reinstate dismissed union leaders. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Beginning

SpeakerPhrase(s)

General Richard Myers

Well, if you remember, if we go back to the beginning of this segment, the goal has never been to get bin Laden. Obviously, that's desirable.

James Lipton

Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything. In film, you stop constantly.

Julianne Moore

That happens to me at the end of a movie. You know I'm fine at the beginning and then near the end I start getting depressed because I realize I've made all the wrong choices.

Lynne Cheney

When your child is four, it's difficult to read any book, you know, from beginning to end. Because what a four-year-old wants to do is talk about what's on the page.

Robert Atkins

I eat a lot of vegetables. And those are the most valuable carbohydrates. But from the very beginning we had to focus on what are the healthy carbohydrates and stay away from the unhealthy ones.

Robert Novak

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was asked if he agreed with Senator Byrd, and he said absolutely. And then he said the things that we had at the beginning of this program.

Rush Limbaugh

We are only now beginning to see the real damage that the Clinton administration inflicted on this country and its position in the world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Beginning

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797There has also been a small beginning in the coinage of half dimes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837We are beginning a new era in our Government.

Warren G. Harding

1921-1923Let us express renewed and strengthened devotion, in grateful reverence for the immortal beginning, and utter our confidence in the supreme fulfillment.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Those voices are beginning to cry aloud again.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969In Eastern Europe restless nations are slowly beginning to assert their identity.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Too many of our welfare programs have problems from beginning to end.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981At the beginning of my Administration there were over a half million heroin addicts in the United States.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Together, we have made a new beginning, but we have only begun.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001What we do here is really beginning to change lives.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Beginning

"Beginning" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.16% of the time. "Beginning" is used about 11,085 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)60.16%6,6691,449
Lexical Verb (-ing form)39.84%4,4162,217
                    Total100.00%11,085N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Beginning

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "beginning".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
GenesisN/ABiblical

Beginning

HaliN/ABiblical

A beginning

MareshahN/ABiblical

From the beginning

RoshN/ABiblical

Beginning

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Beginning

Expressions using "beginning": at the beginning at the beginning of begin at the beginning beginning from monday beginning of lent beginning of new epoch beginning of the end beginning rhyme beginning with from beginning to end from the beginning from the beginning to end from the beginning to the end from the very beginning in the beginning make a beginning promising beginning right at the beginning since the beginning of time start at the beginning. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "beginning": beginning-of-year, beginning-to.

Ending with "beginning": are-beginning, tone-beginning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beginning

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

a new beginning

208

beginning golf

32

beginning

174

beginning quilting

28

beginning exorcist

112

beginning photography

27

sensational beginning

82

beginning calamity house tom

27

beginning guitar

72

beginning reading

24

beginning lyrics

68

beginning to read

23

beginning lil

65

beginning piano

23

populous the beginning

61

beginning body building

22

in the beginning

58

beginning runner

20

beginning algebra

53

beginning cheat populous

20

beginning new street

49

beginning dump memory physical

20

beginning great

47

beginning reader

20

beginning domain find need search symbol url valid we

45

beginning internet

19

beginning bright

42

beginning guitar lesson

19

the beginning of the end

38

beginning new church

18

beginning spanish

38

beginning scrapbooking

18

beginning yoga

37

beautiful beginning

17

beginning running

36

beginning experience

17

beginning fabric in

34

beginning teacher

17

knowledge beginning

34

the bad beginning

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Beginning

Language Translations for "beginning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

begin (begin, commence, commencement, does start, start). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

zanafillë (genesis, inception, origin, root), sefte (start), krue, fillim (breaking, coming-in, commencement, cradle, dawn, inception, incipience, initiation, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, river head, seed, send off, set out, start, term). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فجر (aurora, blast, blow up, burst, dawn, detonate, dynamite, explode, let flow, morning, set off, shot out, spout, spurt, undermine), ‏مستهل (initiate, onset, outset), ‏مطلع (acquainted, aware of, informed, introduction, knowing, onset, proem, start, sunrise), ‏مصدر (fount, fountain, infinitive, mother, origin, principle, provenance, provenience, root, source, springhead), ‏مبادرة (action, initiative, lead), ‏الشروع في, ‏البداية (first, kickoff), ‏إبتداء (commencement, inception), ‏أصل (ancestry, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, ingrain, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, seed, source, stock, strain, taproot), ‏بداية (commencement, conception, inception, onset, opening, origination, outbreak, outset, start, starter, starting, threshold). (various references)

   

Basque

  

hasiera. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

начало (abc, basis, dawn, debut, forepart, genesis, inception, incipience, infancy, initiation, kick off, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, proem, rise, rudiment, set out, source, start), започване (commencement, initiation, institution, lead), произход (background, birth, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, filiation, fountain, genesis, line, mint, nativity, origin, origination, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, rise, stock). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

起点, 開頭 , 開端 (start), 開始 (begin, initial, start), (first day of lunar month), (at first, basic, first, junior). (various references)

   

Croatian

  

poèetku. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zaèátek (commencement, inception, onset, start), poèátek (inception, incipience, lead off, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, set out). (various references)

   

Danish

  

begyndelse (commencement, start). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

begin (commencement, inception, opening, outset, start), ontstaan (arise, commencement, start), aanvang (commencement, start). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

komenco (commencement, start), komenciĝo (commencement, start), eko (commencement, inception, opening, outset, start). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

byrjan (commencement, start), uppruni (commencement, origin, start). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alku (commencement, initial, origin, original, outset, rise, start). (various references)

   

French

  

commencement, inauguration, début. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

begjin (commencement, start), oanfang (commencement, start). (various references)

   

German

  

beginn (advent, commencement, dawn, inauguration, inception, induction, initiation, morning, onset, opening, outset, start, threshold), anfang (commencement, departure, entrie, inception, incipience, init, initial, morning, onset, opening, origin, outset, start, top). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αρχή (basis, commencement, forepart, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, magistracy, onset, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, start). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

התחלה (commencement, inception, onset, opening, outset, start). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kezdet (commencement, conception, dawn, debut, first, inception, incipience, initiation, initiative, lead off, onset, origin, outset, parent, prime, rudiment, setout, start), kezdés (commencement, inception, lead-off, set out, setout). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

byrjun (commencement, start). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pangkal (cause, starting point), awal (commencement, early, first, start). (various references)

   

Irish

  

dtosach. (various references)

   

Italian

  

principio (cause, commencement, criterion, dawn, entrie, origin, outset, principle, start, tenet, top), inizio (advent, beginnung, commencement, dawn, inception, kick off, onset, opening, origination, outset, prime, root, start, starting). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

端緒 (a clue, start), 冒頭 (outset, start). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

こぐち (clue, edge, end, section, small amount), でだし (start), ほんしょ (main office, origin, police headquarters, script, start, text, this book, this office), かきだし (opening sentence or paragraph), かいし (commencement, Japanese tissue, mysterious death, paper used for writing tanka, start, termination), かわきり (start), てはじめに (at first, at the outset), いとぐち (clue, thread end), ぼうとう (boom, outset, sharp rise, skyrocketing, start, sudden rise), あけぼの (dawn, daybreak), あけ (dawn, end, expiration), らんしょう (source), はつ (counter for gunshots, departure, first, new), はじまり (origin), はじめ (origin, start), いり (audience, capacity, entering, expense, income, setting), しょて (start), たんちょ (a clue, start), たちあがり (cutting, how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game, start, starting, styling), おこり (cause, genesis, origin, source), しそめ (outset), そうそうき (outset), そうそう (attendance at a funeral, brevity, distinguished, early, eminent, facies, funeral, hurry, inauguration, quickly, rudeness), ふたあけ (opening), しょとう (10th lunar month, archipelago, cane sugar, early winter, elementary, group of islands, primary, sucrose), さいしょ (first, onset, outset), きげん (A.D., era, humour, mood, origin, period, rise, temper, term), くちあけ (broaching, first sale, opening, start), まくあけ (opening), まくあき (opening, raising of the curtains), まっさき (the foremost, the head), たんしょ (a clue, defect, demerit, disadvantage, start, weak point), しょくち. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

처음 (inception). (various references)

   

Manx

  

toshiaght (bow, bow of ship, captain, captain of team, commencement, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, fore, forefront, forepart, forestalling, genesis, getaway, inception, initiation, lead, opening, origin, outset, preliminary, start, stem, threshold, threshold of pain etc, vanguard). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

debuta. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

cuminsamentu (commencement, start). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eginningbay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

początek (commencement, start). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

princípio (commencement, first, foundation, fount, fundamental, origin, outset, prelude, prime, principle, start, sustenance, tenet, threshold), começo (birth, commencement, first, lead-off, morning, onset, opening, outset, prime, set-out, start, threshold). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

început (commencement, dawn, dayspring, entrance, first, germ, go off, head, head line, inchoation, lead off, morning, opening, outset, setting in, source, spring, start, starter, starting). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

начало (breaking, commencement, cradle, go off, go-off, inception, incipience, kick off, leader, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, prime, proem, set out, start). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

toiseach (origin, source, the beginning), tionnsgnadh (devising). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

začetak (embryo), početak (commencement, exordium, go off, inception, incipience, induction, morning, onset, outbreak, outset, set out, start, starter, threshold). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

comienzo (birth, break, commencement, execution, inception, incipience, initiative, introduction, onset, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, start, starting), principio (a b c, a.b.c., abc, birth, commencement, front, inception, initiation, opening, outset, principle, rule, setout, start, tenet), origen (birth, bottom, commencement, derivation, derivative, descent, extraction, lineage, origin, origination, provenance, provenience, root, source, start). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

början (commencement, first, inception, incipience, incipiency, onset, origin, outset, prime, start), begynnelse (commencement, start). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เริ่มแรก (git-go), จุดเริ่มต้น (origin, takeoff). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

başlangıç (approach, big bang, commencement, commencing, cradle, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold), baş (arch, arch-, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), kaynak (authorship, basis, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb), köken (authorship, basis, bedrock, birth, derivation, descent, etymon, extraction, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, radical, root, seeds, spore, spring, wellhead, wellspring, womb). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

start (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відправна точка, витоки (beginnings), походження (ancestry, birth, blood, caste, derivation, genesis, kin, lineage, origin, original, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, source, strain), початкова стадія, початок (authorship, breaking, commencement, cradle, dawn, dawning, day-spring, first, inception, incipience, morning, mother, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, set out, start, starting, womb), першопричина (efficient, origin, principle), джерело (authorship, channel, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, source, spring, well, wellspring, whence). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phần đầu (forepart), lúc khởi đầu căn nguyên, lúc bắt đầu (start). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

babandod (babyhood, infancy), dechreuad, dechrau (begin, commence, start), cychwyniad (start). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

chun (base, basis, commencement, lineage, origin, start, stem, trunk). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Beginning

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

carcere, carcerem, carceribus, carceris, carcerum, coeptum, exordii, exordiis, exordio, exordium, fundamenta, fundamenti, fundamentis, fundamento, fundamentum, inceptum, initi, initia, initiis, initio, initium, orsa, orsa, orsorum, orsusque, principi, principia, principio, principium. (various references)

Old English450-1100

anginn, fruma, or. (various references)

Old French900-1400

sourse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Beginning

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 24, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintPanta de tauta arch wdinwn
Latin405VulgateHaec autem omnia initia sunt dolorum
Old English990West SaxonEalle þas þing synt þare sare anginne.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd alle these ben bigynnyngis of sorewes.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAll these are the beginninge of sorowes.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAll these are the beginning of sorrows.
Victorian English1833WebsterAll these are the beginning of sorrows.
Basic English1964OgdenBut all these things are the first of the troubles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Beginning

LanguageMatthew Chapter 24, Verse 8
Cebuanokining tanan mao lamay sinugdanan sa mga kasakit.
CroatianAli sve je to samo poèetak trudova."
DanishMen alt dette er Veernes Begyndelse.
DutchDoch al die dingen zijn maar een beginsel der smarten.
FinnishMutta kaikki tämä on synnytystuskien alkua.
FrenchTout cela ne sera que le commencement des douleurs.
GermanDa wird sich allererst die Not anheben.
Haitian CreoleTou sa, se va tankou tranche anvan akouchman.
HungarianMind ez pedig a sok nyomorúságnak kezdete.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSemuanya itu baru permulaan saja, seperti sakit yang dialami seorang wanita pada waktu mau melahirkan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTetapi semuanya itu hanya permulaan sengsara.
Italianma tutto questo è solo l'inizio dei dolori.
LatvianBet tas viss tikai cieðanu sâkums.
Manx GaelicBee ooilley shoh toshiaght seaghyn diu.
MaoriOtira ko te timatanga kau enei katoa o nga mamae.
NorwegianMen alt dette er begynnelsen til veene.
PortugueseMas todas essas coisas são o princípio das dores.   
RumanianDar toate aceste lucruri nu vor fi deckt knceputul durerilor.
RussianЧУЈ ЦЕ ЬФП--ОБЮБМП ВПМЕЪОЕК.
ShuarNujai ti Wáitsatin aya yama nankamui' Tímiayi.
SpanishPues todas estas cosas son principio de dolores.
SwahiliYote hayo ni kama mwanzo wa maumivu ya kujifungua mtoto.
Swedishmen allt detta är allenast begynnelsen till 'födslovåndorna'*.
UmaAga hawe'ea toe lau lako' pontepu'ua-na-pidi, hewa pontodohaka hadua tobine to neo' mo'ana'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Beginning

Derivations

Words beginning with "beginning": beginnings. (additional references)

Words ending with "beginning": misbeginning, rebeginning. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Beginning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bcginning, Bedinini, beggining, begginning, begining, Beginnen, beginni, beginnig, beginnning, bigynnynge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Beginning"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "beginning" (pronounced bigi"ning)
4-i" n i ngbinning, Dinning, finning, ginning, grinning, inning, pinning, sinning, spinning, thinning, winning.
3-n i ngapportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, bemoaning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, glistening, governing, greening, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Beginning

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-n"

-1 letter: bingeing, engining.

-2 letters: binging, binning, ginning, inbeing.

-3 letters: benign, biggie, biggin, gibing, gieing, inning.

-4 letters: begin, being, benni, binge, genii.

-5 letters: bine, gibe, gien, nine.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-n"
 

+1 letter: beginnings.

 

+2 letters: rebeginning.

 

+3 letters: misbeginning.

 

+4 letters: herringboning.

 

+5 letters: bioengineering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Derived from
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms
25. Derivations
26. Rhymes
27. Anagrams
28. Bibliography


  

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