Usually means: Starting point of any event.
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  1. beginning: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beginning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beginning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beginning: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beginning: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beginning, Beginning, beginning: Wordnik
  7. beginning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beginning: Wiktionary
  9. beginning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beginning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beginning: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Beginning, beginning: Dictionary.com
  13. beginning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Beginning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. beginning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. beginning: Rhymezone
  18. beginning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. beginning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. beginning: Free Dictionary
  21. beginning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. beginning: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. beginning: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  2. beginning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beginning: Encyclopedia

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  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. beginning: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
noun:  That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
noun:  That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
noun:  The initial portion of some extended thing.
adjective:  (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

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