Usually means: Start or initiate something; commence.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Begin, begin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. begin, begin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. begin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. begin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Begin, begin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Begin, begin: Wordnik
  7. begin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. begin: Wiktionary
  9. begin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. begin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. begin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Begin, begin: Dictionary.com
  13. begin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. begin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Begin (David Archuleta album), Begin (Lion Babe album), Begin (Riyu Kosaka album), Begin (The Millennium album), Begin (band), Begin (disambiguation), Begin (surname), Begin (video game), Begin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Begin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. begin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Begin: Rhymezone
  19. begin, begin (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. begin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. begin: Free Dictionary
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  23. Begin: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. begin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begin: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BEGIN: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. BEGIN: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begin: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See began as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation
verb:  (intransitive) To come into existence.
noun:  (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

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